«The entrustment to general practitioners of the task of home care for Covid patients»Is in contrast with the emergency legislation. For this the Tar of Lazio it partially accepted an appeal lodged by the Union of Italian Doctors against some provisions of the Lazio Region. As a result of the regional decisions “General Practitioners – specifies the TAR – are invested with a completely improper home care function for Covid patients, which by law should only belong to the Special Continuity Care Units (Usca)”. The latter are the medical teams set up by local health authorities specifically for home visits. According to the TAR, doctors would be “dangerously distracted from the task of providing ordinary assistance, to the detriment of the concrete possibility of assisting the many non-Covid patients, many of whom suffering from even serious diseases”.
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The Lazio Region immediately announced the appeal to the Council of State against the sentence of the TAR which “does not take into account a picture of strong evolution of the role of general practitioners in the fight against the pandemic and comes after 8 months from the organizational methods implemented that so far have allowed Lazio to be in the so-called yellow zone “. «In Lazio there are more 60 thousand people in home isolation and it is technically impossible to manage them solely with the Usca ”, underlines the Crisis Unit of the Region.
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A passage of the‘regional order of 17 March last – that is, the one that prescribes to evaluate the possible activation of the Usca in COVID positive patients – was contested by the Syndicate of doctors as it “contemplates the intervention of home assistance as merely possible. But this type of intervention should constitute not a simple “eventuality”, but the primary and exclusive objective of the Usca “. Evaluating these and other considerations, the TAR considered the well-founded appeal. “The applicants are right – the judges write – when they state that the emergency legislator intended to provide that family doctors could continue in the ordinary care activity, without having to deal with the home care of Covid patients”. Therefore “entrusting general practitioners with the task of home care to Covid patients is in contrast with those provisions”.
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November 16, 2020 (change November 16, 2020 | 18:13)
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