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In the world, the Coronavirus has already killed more than a million people and many have left alone in the solitude of intensive care. They lived the last moments of their lives without their loved ones with them, without a husband, wife, son, brother. Visits to the hospital are not possible or that has been until now. Now padua hospital is defining a new protocol to allow, first in Italy, family visits to their loved ones in the last hours of life. The hospital responds to the appeal of two women, Maurizia and Alessandra Dalla Volta, daughters of Professor Sergio Dalla Volta, prince of Italian academic cardiology, founder of the Padua School of Cardiology, which has become a world-class excellence. The professor died on August 20 alone: at the age of 92 he was hospitalized in Padua after a heart attack and tested positive for Coronavirus. The agony of the daughters, who could not see him despite being 5 minutes from the hospital, is the same as that of many people who have lost their loved ones in the loneliness of intensive care.
“Why maintain this rigidity now that things are normalizing a bit, so much so that restaurants, discos, shopping centers, stadiums, sports halls have reopened? What is the meaning of this martyrdom today? The closeness in death has to do with the intimate and ancient needs of man … ”, his words collected from Corriere della Sera. Maurizia and Alessandra, both musicians, teach at the Paris Conservatory. Maurizia was in Padua when her father suffered a heart attack. Then the discovery of positivity in Covid. He had a low viral load, remaining practically asymptomatic, but the antivirus protocol also clicked him isolation and absolute prohibition of contact with the outside world. In those days Maurizia approached the health department asking for an exception to the rule. But it was not possible to go to give her one last kiss. “In France, where I live – in Maurizia’s words – the government, in fact President Macron himself, has ruled that it is possible to visit a family member who is dying … In Italy, only minors have the right to a companion who is with him. his. But the elderly and the very elderly are in the same conditions of emotional weakness, fragility and have the same needs. “The only thing they could do was see him before the burial:” Precisely for this viability I would ask to the Italian authorities that make it regularly accessible for families to see their loved ones one last time. Even in sadness it is a small ancient consolation that helps in some way to cry…. And I would also ask that, with due precautions, family visits be granted at the end of life ”, the appeal of the teacher’s daughters.
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