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Corona misery in Italy: the video of the Naples hospital causes violent reactions
A shocking video of a hospital in Naples and the jump over the million mark for corona cases triggers new alarm calls in Italy. In the southern Italian port city of Naples, a patient was found dead in the bathroom.
A video that, according to media reports, shows the incident in the emergency room, provoked violent reactions across the country on Thursday. There was also a hallway overflowing with hospital beds.
“The photos of the patient who was found dead at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples are shocking,” Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio wrote on Facebook on Wednesday night. “In Naples and in many parts of Campania the situation is out of control.” There are reports of people in the Gulf of Naples region being treated in the car in parking lots. Others would have to wait too long to be transported to the hospital, he wrote.
The situation “is not out of control”
The managers of the Cardarelli Hospital agreed to investigate the circumstances of the death. The hospital is working under a lot of pressure, but the situation is not out of control, he said. The director of the clinic, Giuseppe Longo, assured this Thursday, according to the Ansa news agency, that all patients could be treated appropriately.
Regional Minister Francesco Boccia said the video footage is an embarrassment to all those responsible. At the same time, in a television interview on La7 station, he pointed out that too many people with mild corona symptoms come to the hospital instead of being cured at home.
Southern Italy particularly affected by Corona
The Mediterranean country with its 60 million inhabitants exceeded one million corona cases registered this Wednesday. At the same time, 623 people died within 24 hours of the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 or with it. The last time there was such a high number of victims in Italy during the first Corona wave in a bad phase in early April.
In spring, the soldiers had to install a field hospital in Bergamo. Image: EPA
The first wave of viruses affected mainly the north and especially Lombardy. There is Bergamo, where hospitals and cemeteries were completely overloaded in the spring. Images of coffins taken out of the city in military trucks went around the world.
Currently, however, many more regions of Italy are hit hard by the second corona wave. This time around, poor areas in southern Italy are also seeing high levels of infection. This includes Campania, where there were recently around 3,000 new cases per day. However, the virus hit harder this time in Lombardy. The hospital system in the north is considered to be much better than that in southern Italy. However, experts from some regions of the country also reported that the contagion curve has flattened in recent days, giving hope.
Politicians warn of collapse of hospitals
Due to different regional locations, the government of Rome recently divided the country into three risk zones in the fight against the pandemic. More than half of the 20 regions have been designated as red or orange areas. In the red zones, including Lombardy and Piedmont in the north and Calabria in the south, partial closures with exit restrictions apply.
Naples and Campania as a whole have so far been classified as a moderate risk zone (yellow) by the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. Several politicians had been critical of this in recent days and warned of the collapse of hospitals there. After the shocking video from Naples, there were signs that Rome wanted to re-examine the situation. (sda / dpa)
