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The story of a Covid patient
A patient with CPAP, the respiratory ventilation mask
Nine days in the emergency room to fight his battle against Covid-19: Mario B., who is 75 years old, lives in the Val d’Alpone, and tomorrow he will celebrate his first month back to life. “I left my house on the morning of November 6, with shortness of breath, a high fever for four days and a cough. I’ve been trying to stay home as long as possible for a long time, I still don’t know how I managed it, but that morning the ambulance had to arrive, ”says the old man. The moment of arriving at San Bonifacio and finds himself «in a chair, in a large room of the emergency room of the Fracastoro hospital.
Sampling, drip, swab: I stayed there until the night in the middle of an impressive construction site.“Those were the days when the medical post cleared all possible spaces to accommodate Covid-19 patients,” an incredible job that made the severity of the emergency very clear. “
Mario’s is one of the Covid-19s that was stopped in the emergency room due to The beds for Covid-19 pneumonia weren’t there: It happened a month ago and if he tells his story today it is because, as far as he knows, the situation is repeating itself. “There are still people convinced that the virus does not exist, but when they accompanied me from the chair to a door that said isolation, I felt the earth fail under my feet: two of the three beds were occupied ”, says Mario,“ I did not know that one of the three would not have made it ”.
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