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“Right now Codogno is us and we need the same attention that we gave to the others in Phase one.” San Gerardo de Monza Hospital, the red zone of the second wave of infections. In a province of 850 thousand inhabitants that in the last 24 hours registered 874 new positives, 37 more than the city of Milan, which has more than 1.3 million inhabitants. General manager Mario Alparone has to take care of 450 Covid patients out of the 600 beds available. One hundred who are in intensive care, almost half are already employed. But most worrying are the 340 homebound doctors and nurses. Infected. And the 110 health workers hired are “a drop compared to a standing army.” The landscape in the streets of San Gerardo is spectacular. The nurse-patient relationship is getting worse: one only has to follow 10 patients with the ‘helmet …
“Right now We are codogno and we need the same attention that we gave in Phase One to the others. ” San Gerardo de Monza Hospital, red zone of the second wave of infections. In a province of 850,000 inhabitants, which in the last 24 hours has registered 874 new positives, 37 more than the city of Milan, which has more than 1.3 million inhabitants. The general director Mario Alparone has to deal with 450 Covid patients out of the 600 beds available. About a hundred of those in intensive care, almost half are already employed. But what worries most are the 340 homebound doctors and nurses. Infected. And me 110 health workers hired they are “a drop compared to a standing army.”
The landscape in the streets of San Gerardo is spectacular. the nurse-patient relationship is getting worse: one only has to follow 10 patients with the ‘C-pap helmet’, while in intensive care we have gone from a nurse for two hospitalized to a doctor for three, having also had to send reinforcements to the Fiera di Milano hospital where theMonza Assistant He is in charge of 10 beds. “Here we are exhausted, in a month we entered a total emergency – the tiredness of Davide Scorzelli, nurse in intensive care and union member of the USB -. They skip all the forecasts, all the schemes. “At this point, the San Gerardo is a totally Covid hospital. For now, only the peripheral sectors of the monoblock have been kept ‘clean’. Also the fourth floor of the Reception Building (which houses the day hospital and Cup clinics) It has been converted to an intensive and semi-intensive care unit The number of hospitalizations, at this time, is lower: in March the San Gerardo had 600 patients and 97 in intensive care, but more than half came from outside the province from Codogno and Bergamo. “We need to catch our breath,” the request of another nurse in the front line. As soon as the shift is over, she slowly crawls to the car. She has deliberately parked it a little more usual: “After hours Enclosed in your overalls, with the mask and all the protections you can use, you have the physical need to walk and breathe the air in the open air. “Because” when you are in there you have to think only of the patients. Who wears a ‘helmet’ is awake and talks to you looking directly into your eyes with expressions that take you home too. “Behind him comes a semi-deserted hospital. The corridors are empty. Every now and then you see the civil protection volunteers who have once again acted as a bridge between patients and their families: “Now I am taking the phone to a 25-year-old boy who, fortunately, is no longer intubated after a few days of intensive care and will at least be able to return to see and speak with his family”. “Says a volunteer before reaching the door that separates the world free of Covid from the so-called ‘dirty’ roads. Only doctors, nurses and social-health workers enter. After passing through the filtering rooms, they reach the beds from the patients.
“It’s hard – Scorzelli’s outburst -. Many colleagues thought of surrendering, of resigning, because the burden to bear, both physical and psychological, is enormous. So, however, grit your teeth and move on. Although we know well that this second wave will be longer than the first ”. “Caring for the good of people often sacrificing free time, family, loved ones, is not for everyone – the pride of a social and health worker -. Every day is a fight against time, every day we fight for give the maximum and be better, because in the end there is nothing more beautiful than a grateful smile from someone who has been less fortunate. ”But“ alone we can no longer do it. ”The prefect of Monza Patrizia Palmisani has asked the Ministry of Defense to Send in reinforcements of Army doctors and nurses Since Sunday the emergency room has diverted non-serious patients to Advanced clinical checkpoint activated by the regional emergency and urgency agency in via Novara in Milan. Since yesterday, one has also been installed at the Monza circuit, between the track and the circuit’s medical center. Operational from 7 to 19, it is already a bustle of ambulances that later take patients out of the province. In San Gerardo only the most serious cases remain. In those pavilions surrounded by a “ghostly and disturbing silence” where “arms are desperately needed to be able to heal everyone. “
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