An agreement was signed between the Liguria Region and general practitioners of Liguria: family doctors will perform and report antigen tests to their patients. The goal is to lighten hospitals and prevent hospitalization of patients themselves.
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Antigen tests will be performed in spaces made available to local health authorities and public assistance of Liguria, with their willingness to provide means, personnel and spaces for this initiative. The overall project initially envisages a space for each district e they are free.
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“Today we vary a new collaboration planand activated with general practitioners and the support of the medical order, precisely to strengthen the territorial medicine plan not only of the metropolitan city of Genoa, but of the entire Liguria – Toti explained. The goal is to have faster disease screening, and thus an earlier start of care and ease the pressure on the emergency room by finding a complete and effective response at a territorial level “.
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“I want to thank the Liguria Region for having aI have heard the appeal of the order of doctors to open different work tables to find together common solutions to the critical issues that the pandemic is facing us – explains Alessandro Bonsignore, president of the Order of doctors and dentists of Liguria – In this sense, although the numbers are not objectively encouraging, a reassuring message for citizens comes from synergy and unity of purpose that never as at this moment can be crucial to face the coming weeks and months “.
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“General practitioners express satisfaction with this agreement signed today – they explain Angelo Tersidio (Fimmg), Pietrino Forfori (Smi) and Giorgio Fusetti (Snami), trade union representatives of general practitioners who signed the document. In this particular moment of emergency due to the second wave of Covid 19 we have wanted for sense of responsibility to offer our contribution to the Region and citizens. With today’s agreement it will be possible for the doctors participating in the project to carry out rapid swabs in asymptomatic subjects who have come into contact with positive cases. This is to speed up the diagnostic procedures and the return to social and work activities, all in appropriate structures, whether they are external districts or inside clinics. As general practitioners, who have always been a point of reference and first contact with citizens, we felt the duty to further support other health and hospital operators in the fight against the virus “.
On health situation in our region Toti stated that “On the whole it remains similar to that of the past days, in the face of a very high number of tampons even today. Some neighborhoods of Genoa are seeing sustained circulation of the virus, while for the other parts of Liguria, circulation is in line with the less affected parts of the rest of Italy. Also today – Toti states – we checked ours with Alisa incremental plan of our beds. It was a new unit opened at San Martino which allows us to have space for hospital admissions, another space always inside the San Martino will be activated in the coming days. We are concluding contracts with medium intensity care facilities in Genoa; we plan to activate 2 in the next week and another 2 by the end of October, for a total of 150 additional seats. In hospitals, most of the patients remain in medium and low intensity of care. Intensive care has been substantially stable for some weeks on figures significantly lower than the peak of March and last April “, concluded the president of the Region.
Finally, in consideration of the increase in hospitalizations of Covid patients today at the Emergency Department of the San Martino hospital in Genoa and given the current needs, which denote a medium-low intensity clinical connotation, our Health Department from tonight at 8 pm the department on the 3rd floor of the New Laboratories Pavilion reopens, which became known during the lockdown phase as ‘Fagiolone’, with up to 20 beds. The department will be managed by internists and anesthetists according to the model, already successfully tested, of multidisciplinary joint management.
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