We are in total confusion and perhaps it would be better to stop talking about COVID-19, PANDEMIC, LOCKDOWN as if we had all become doctors or experts, often going so far as to make the diagnosis and even indicate the cure! In the meantime, what the real problems are escaping us, risking to get to the REAL pandemic, to a DEEP ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS, due not only to this damned virus itself but also to the mismanagement of the information we have received from the institutions , which from the very beginning generated a great fear in us.
Who speaks to you is Michele Mesisca, area manager of Apice of the Association for the Defense of Consumers U.Di.Con., and with this letter he brings his testimony as a person who tested positive for Covid-19 (and then, fortunately, healed):
I was infected in the cardiology department of the San Pio hospital in Benevento, and I immediately thought that there must have been a mistake, since the aforementioned department seemed harmless to me: in fact, during the nine days of stay, the nursing staff and all doctors, as per protocol, were equipped with gloves and a double mask, and so were we patients.
Hence my disbelief at the result of the swab done before the resignation.
Despite this, I also thank all the cardiology department, including Utic, having all been professional and kind and I take this opportunity to congratulate the emergency room operators who, despite the difficulties, got away very well by working 24 hours without break.
Following the communicated positivity to Covid-19, I was isolated at home for 24 days, as, fortunately, asymptomatic positive.
I specify that at the first control swab I was still positive but, luckily for me, after a further 12 days the result was negative.
During the period of forced isolation, not being a scientist or a doctor I happened to ask myself the following questions almost every day:
- How is it possible that I was infected in a hospital, which in reality should be that place dedicated to the care of patients, protecting them from any risk, including contagion from Covid-19?
- Being asymptomatic means being sick, or not?
In all this sanitary and institutional chaos, there is another negative side, which can be summarized in a single word: ASL!!
Well, his USCA unit, or “Special Continuity Care Units”, should have carried out swabs for patients with Covid-19 at home.
Unfortunately, from my experience, I have not found an intervention in this sense, since I was “abandoned” in isolation for several days without any ASL operator providing me with health care.
In fact, the ASL only told me where to go to carry out both the first and the second swab.
The ASL limited itself, to my amazement, to indicating only the place used for the swabs, where I would have to go personally and at my own expense.
While not sharing this modus operandi of the ASL, and remaining incredulous of what “I asked for my state of positivity to Covid-19, a nurse for home venous sampling, being a heart patient … … But on the other hand the ASL replied that such a service was not provided “, I saw myself forced both to protect my health and that of my family members, to comply with the incomprehensible invitation of the ASL, that is to go together with my loved ones (my wife and my son, who were in fiduciary quarantine), traveling in the same car , at the place indicated.
The question arises spontaneously: how is it possible that the procedure indicated by the ASL to carry out swabs foresees a risk of contagion for my family?!?!
Some members of the association also denounced the delay in the outcome of the swab due to the ASL, which had not updated the registry, as well as for having the wrong telephone number and other various problems. Anything can happen but at the time of the swab you have to fill in a form with the person’s data and telephone number and therefore these mistakes make no sense.
The association makes itself available for any Covid19 complaint
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