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Covid is spreading and taking up extra space every day in Sicilian hospitals. And so entire departments disappear, merge, transfer and convert to create new beds for the infected on the island. With the push of the Ministry of Health that requested, by means of a circular, to reorganize the activities of the hospital to face the emergency. From Palermo to Ragusa, from Enna to Catania, the map of hospital changes is full of red flags.
Palermo
After gastroenterology at Cervello hospital, the OB / GYN ward and clinic are also closed to accommodate Covid patients. The health direction has ordered the immediate suspension of hospitalizations. Patients will be discharged whenever possible or transferred to the wards of other hospitals in the metropolitan area. At the same time, the outpatient activity of Internal Medicine and chronic and intestinal diseases was also suspended. The temporary suspension of the pediatric emergency service was also signed. As of today, the services will not be performed and “patients will be diverted from seven to ten days – read the note signed by the general manager of the Villa Sofía company and sent among others to the prefect and the mayor of Palermo – to the ward pediatric emergencies of the ‘Children’s Hospital’.
In Villa Sofía, however, admissions to the Neuroreanimation, Neurosurgery and Neurology department of the Villa Sofía company were suspended after some Covid-positive patients were found. “We communicate – reads a note from the company – the temporary suspension of hospitalization activities in the ward because cases of positive patients for Covid19 have been found. Once the decontamination and sanitation operations have been completed, the reopening will be announced ”. Neurology of the Polyclinic also closed, this also transformed into Covid, in front of the 60 patients already hospitalized.
“We are paying the price of four months of lack of planning, inability and omissions – says Angelo Collodoro of Cimo – Months in which politics has guiltily minimized the data, once again showing arrogance and arrogance. It is amazing to see how the governor in For 3 years denounced in the press the lack of 5 thousand health workers. Who stopped them from hiring? Neither he nor his predecessors shied away from the usual advertising policy. That is why it happens that today they send new graduates to intensive care, staff caught with the VAT game. “The pressure is strong. This is also the case in Fattoria, where the emergency room is full of people waiting for a tampon and two patients waiting for a place in a Covid room.
Catania
At the Policlinico di Catania, services can be postponed for about twenty days after an outbreak broke out. Cases have been registered in Gynecology and Cardiology. You should also close a department of surgery. “We had to merge two this morning – specifies the surgeon Raffaele Lanteri – but the rooms are full, first we must transfer the patients and only then release useful personnel for Covid patients.”
In San Marco, the center of Coronavirus, the departments of thoracic surgery and orthopedics have been converted. Major transformations in Acireale and Biancavilla, immediately adjusted to face the emergency, with transfers of entire departments and reconversions.
Caltanissetta and Enna
The situation in Nisseno prompted the medical director of the ASP, Alessandro Caltagirone to send a note to the provincial deans to suspend non-urgent hospitalizations for “the exponential increase in Covid 19 cases that required hospitalization” and for “optimizing human resources.” For example, oncology hospitalizations or day services for chronic conditions will be provided. In nearby Enna, Medicine was transferred from Umberto I to Piazza Armerina, which in return provided Pediatrics, Orthopedics and Surgery.
Ragusa
In Ragusa, the pressure is very strong with 136 hospitalized and more than 2,000 positives, for a population of just over 300,000 inhabitants. The reference hospital is Giovanni Paolo II, in the provincial capital: “We have merged obstetrics and pediatrics – says CEO Angelo Aliquò – And, in addition, we are using the medical departments for Covid patients, because there are already useful specialists to treat the infected. “Vittoria’s Ophthalmology will move to Comiso, while in Modica the Nephrology and Medicine Directorate will move where a gray area has been opened. In intensive care there are 21 people between Ragusa and Vittoria, plus 8 in the sub-intensive. “If necessary, we are ready to use some operating rooms to get six seats.” But the problem is the staff: there are only 33 anesthetists, half of those who would need it.
