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Seat numbers in intensive care activated in Sicily have been “inflated” since regional government? A question that also represents the last j’accuse advanced against the governor Nello musumeci. After the case broke out in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, the city of Messina where they planned 10 beds never made – and where the prosecutor has opened an investigation – the Coordination of hospital doctors (Cimo) has counted one by one all the existing positions in the Resuscitation pavilions of the Region. And then he compared them to the official numbers provided. by the department. Outcome? In Sicily 210 beds are ghosts: they exist in the official numbers of the Region but only in that list, not in the hospitals. At least according to the doctors union. It means that the epidemic on the island has transformed very little the health system that only matters 189 more seats compared to 2019. But let’s go step by step.
Before the Covid emergency, Sicily mattered 418 intensive care places. After the first wave of the pandemic, last July, the Region launched a program and plans to reach 720 rooms. After the exponential growth of infections and the arrival of the second wave, the number increases instead to 817. At least these are the numbers provided by the hospitals to the platform Geckos of the Civil protection: numbers also confirmed by the regional health department. From those numbers, the Cimo medical union He began to do his direct surveys: “We count the places in the field and the reality is very different: they have inflated the numbers“, dice Angelo Collodoro, regional undersecretary of Sicily top. In practice, according to sidancato the accounts do not add up: the July programming had foreseen 720 beds in intensive careHowever, according to the hospital-by-hospital survey, the locations were 583or 137 less with respect to the provisions of the Region. In the following months, the discrepancy grows: the new data of November 12 published on the Gecos platform speak of 817 intensive care places, of which 326 dedicated to Covid and standard 491 patients, but according to Sicilian doctors I am alone 607.
In case of Caltanissetta, where according to the table published by Cimo the intensive care places before Covid there were 12. How many are there today? For the union always 12 despite the fact that Sicilia has declared a total of 37, that is to say 25 more. The same thing happens to Enna where there were 8 intensive care places before the advent of the pandemic and it stayed that way according to union numbers and beyond. On October 30, the same general director of Asp de Enna was, Francesco Iudica explain to fattoquotidiano.it as if they weren’t there Activated Covid locations in the province in central Sicily: “In the initial plan prepared by the Department, for the basin Catania / Enna, in Enna hospitals no intensive or ordinary care beds were provided. With the “spread of the pandemic, we too have been called to equip ourselves.” The plan announced by Iudica was to begin on November 2 and included 10 intensive care beds and 10 semi-intensive care beds: according to data released on November 19 and published on the platform. Geckos, Covid beds are 10 and standard beds are 13. According to the union, however, 8 were before Covid and 8 have remained so far.
And to say that according to the Region there are even 196 other places from intensive therapy that can be activated: The Department of Health, in fact, not only confirms the data provided in Rome, but also relaunches it, based on a situation that is defined as “beds in constant evolution and in constant increase”. Hospital doctors deny: “They talked about 120 seats in the Madonie, at the beginning, after 54 in Petralia Sottana: There are 10. Not one more. The figures collected in the field tell another reality ”, says Collodoro again. A discrepancy in the numbers that, if confirmed, could lead Sicily to the chessboard of national measures against covid. There are many similar cases, according to the coordination of the hospital doctors. TO Messinafor example there were 62 places before Covid, the July calendar provided them 106, but according to the conclusions of the staff union doctors there are only 55 and they remain so even now, even though the region knows it 120. The province of Messina was, on the other hand, the one that in recent weeks created the most problems in providing data to the press: although the ASP did not respond, it was in fact the mayor of Messina, Cateno De Luca to argue that there were 12 intensive care beds in the Polyclinic. According to data confirmed by the regional councilor of the Polyclinic, the most important center in the entire province that has a population of 626 thousand inhabitants, there are 20 places, plus 23 standard places, for a total of 43. According to the surveys “in the field”, however, there would be only 24. While the balance between the ordinary and Covid places for the entire province would be 55 seats, that’s exactly how many there were before Covid.
In this province, then, an investigation was opened to see clearly about the ghost intensive care places. Investigate from today is the head of the Prosecutor’s Office Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Emanuele Crescenti, which initiated an investigation at that time purely cognitive – he stressed – to understand what happened in the Covid center created in Cutroni zodda, the city hospital was transformed into a Covid center in April. In recent days, in fact, another union had denounced the shortage of jobs: “They had announced 10, then they talked about two places created in operating rooms ”, he says Paolo Calabrò, deputy provincial coordinator Uil, fpl, medical area. The general director also spoke of two positions in intensive care, Paolo La Paglia: “They are there, they are prepared, but if there are no patients they do not fill up, it is very simple.
On the other hand – explains La Paglia – the Covid Center in Barcelona is designed for medium-low intensity. “For Cutroni Zodda’s intensive care sites, however, they had almost been allocated 2 million euros: with that money they had to create 10 places, including equipment. The resolution signed by the Councilor for Health also speaks of 10 intensive care places, Ruggero razza, September 11. However, there are only two places to intubate seriously ill patients. empty– If any of the Covid patients get worse, they are sent to Messina, as happened last night. It may be for this reason that there is no trace of these two beds in the data provided by the Region, probably proving that they are not officially considered Covid sites. Blame the anesthesiologist shortage, according to the CEO: “There are 6 anesthetists in total one of whom is the mayor (a Fondachelli Fantina, ed) and another is on license. The whole province suffers from a shortage of anesthetists of 25 units, which will soon reach about 30 ”. In the Covid center there is not even a cardiologist: “It has been a week since we were without – warns Calabrò – now there is one, which means that it only covers one shift, at night and on holidays there is no one.” Just one of the many extreme cases of a situation that has put Razza under indictment: next week the Ars will have to vote on the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition on Musumeci’s Health Minister.
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