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Seen from the “deck” of a frontline hospital, the second wave is scary. “Yesterday we reopened. We returned to pavilion 13, a small hospital dedicated only to Covid 19. I end an amazing night, continuous hospitalizations, it seems to me a movie that I have already seen ”. The photo of the return of Covid is a publication written at 7 in the morning by the director of the department of Pulmonology at the Verona hospital, Claudio Micheletto. “I’m afraid that tonight – he adds – a strong rebound has been unleashed: overflowing emergency rooms, many people with symptoms. I don’t remember who said the virus was clinically dead. After 24 consecutive hours of work, you may lose your memory. “
His message on Facebook was followed by comments from hundreds of people thanking doctors and health professionals for their dedication. Like in spring.
“Reopening the rooms – continues Micheletto – moved us, the faces of all those who had passed through that pavilion in spring came back to us, their suffering, their smiles, the satisfaction of sending them home. But also our fatigue, sweat, heavy clothes, masks. We are not happy to return, in March we are faced with the unknown, now we know what we have to do for all the next months. Resuming this work in October means facing a very long period ”.
Tracked by phone, Micheletto responds hastily, because he is entering through the door of the room. “We are making a ‘call to arms’, we have to call the doctors and nurses.
“Here it is worse than in March,” says the manager. “I’m entering now … we have to expand our availability – he explains – When I speak of March, I certainly do not say in numbers, then we had 180 patients and 60 intensive therapies in total throughout the company – Verona is made up of two hospitals in Borgo Trento and Borgo Roma – But the flow is continuous. Young people? No, most of them are patients from the 50-60 age group. “” To date in Borgo Roma we have 22 hospitalized for infectious diseases, complete, and 6 in intensive care, complete. With us in pulmonology in Borgo Trento there are 20 occupied beds and we have to expand. Today we add another 6, but the problem is not the places, we need staff to follow the patients “.
Micheletto, not very active on social networks, had signed his previous post on June 2, when the emergency seemed to have ended: “After eighty days we closed a Covid room, we are trying to return to normal life. We have had a lot of stories, a lot of effort, but also a lot of satisfaction ”.
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