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AGI – “Another great epidemic will come, caused by multi-resistant germs.” Massimo Galli, former president of SIMIT, said this on the eve of the XIX Congress of the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases.
“This epidemic has taught us a lesson” – Galli stressed, underlining “how important a good epidemiological network is, also to deal with some emergencies such as Covid-19. In recent years, however, infectious diseases have suffered strong cuts, complex units that have become simple, while in some hospitals the figure of the infectious disease specialist was even considered useless. And there has been no investment in territorial medicine for decades, and substantial differences have also been noted between one region and another ”.
For Galli, it is “appropriate, therefore, that this epidemic teaches us to go exactly in the opposite direction.” Today public health, unfortunately, is in force in a semi-comatose state. It becomes essential, especially for the coming years, the presence of a specialized function in each hospital, not only from a strictly clinical point of view, but also from an epidemiological point of view, so that there is a possible early detection of conditions which later become of interest for territorial prevention in the broadest sense ”.
Overall, Galli concluded, “I sincerely hope that we can take advantage of this lesson to be more prepared to face the other great epidemic that is coming: a not-so-progressive pandemic. Let’s talk about the one caused by multi-resistant germs, which affects both hospitals and hospitals. to the external environment, one of the main threats of this decade. And finally, I hope that we are able to be stronger to face ‘historical’ diseases, such as HIV and HCV.
