The beds of intensive care and gods Covid departments in Campania they rise suddenly, in a few hours, changing denomination risk becoming the subject of a judicial file. Because those numbers have determined – and will continue to do so – the placement in the yellow zone at lower risk of spreading the contagion, band that could soon change color with the update of the monitoring of theHigher Institute of Health reported week between October 26 and November 2.
And so several sources claim that the prosecutor of Naples has access to a beacon on the data that the Region transmits to Ministry of Health. An information file, without suspects or hypotheses of crime, which would be on the desk of the pm Mariella Di Mauro, former coordinator of various investigative activities onCovid emergency in Naples, from the anomalies of the procurement around the modular hospitals up to the alleged scams around the administration of tampons of poor quality. A hypothesis that the judicial offices deny: “No initiative has been taken nor announced”, writes the chief prosecutor in a note Giovanni Melillo.
That of Naples would not be the first proxy to move on this ground. A few days ago that of Genoa, where investigative sources explained that a verification activity is underway on the data “and if they correspond to the reality of our territory”, after having viewed the numerous images of patients in ambulance waiting for hours before being able to access hospitals. Images that have also been seen in Naples: long lines of ambulances in front of theCardarelli hospital, all’hospital of the Sea of Ponticelli, al Cotugno, al Saint Leonardo of Castellammare di Stabia, emergency room on tilt for hours because of the precariously arranged Covid wards, with makeshift dividers, through non-safe entry routes.
A situation that fights with the daily bulletins of theRegional Crisis Unit, which tell of ‘alone’ 1,817 beds occupied with respect to 3.160 ‘available’, including 186 in intensive care on 590 prepared. So the question is: if there are more than a thousand free places, why do you wait hours in front of hospitals before being hospitalized? Pay attention to dates. The November 5 the beds communicated by the Crisis Unit were 1,940 (and those in Ti 243), and they increased by about 1,200 in a single night, which appeared in the next day’s bulletin. What does it mean? It’s all in the word ‘activatable’, which has for some time replaced the word ‘available’ in reports. A higher number of seats, therefore a lower percentage of employees, improves performance of two of the 21 parameters considered by the ISS for the risk classification – yellow, orange, red – of each Region.
‘Activatable’ means that they exist on paper, as long as there is a need for them, and in that case, to make them effective and ready to welcome those who need them, we should allocate further medical staff e paramedic. The governor mentioned it Vincenzo De Luca in a few seconds of the live Facebook on Friday, when he explained that it is not possible to keep them all active at the same time for shortage of staff. Basically, and pending clarification that could come from the ongoing investigations, the reports seem one theoretical situation and not the real one of usable beds at the moment.
Meanwhile, this weekend the city has split in two, between anguish and lightness: rows of cars and ambulances in front of hospitals, thousands of people in beach to sunbathe, or on lungomare freed to walk, regardless of the risk of contagion. The mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris has decided not to adhere to De Luca’s call to close the streets of move, leaving open via Partenope e via Caracciolo, the streets of the promenade and the outdoor restaurants facing the sea, literally besieged. According to de Magistris, closing a road “makes no sense and, on the contrary, can cause a funnel effect on other places “and also” with the closures there is a risk that people will see each other indoors where the danger of contagion is greater ”than in outdoor places.
“Citizens who go out cannot be blamed, and with the mask, because in the yellow zone there is no ban on going out, just as it is absurd to invest a mayor with a decision that is useless ”, explained de Magistris. The mayor stresses that “they are people walking, they are not gatherings”. In other forums, de Magistris said perplexity e bewilderment for the inclusion of Campania in the yellow band, accompanied by the certainty that sooner or later it will fall in red zone. The feeling is that almost everyone, from de Magistris to De Luca up to the Ministry of Health, deems necessary forms of lockdown more severe in Naples (yesterday 2,158 contagions of the 4,601 came from the metropolitan area), but each thinks that it must be someone else to decide.
Restrictive measures that are also requested by nurses. “In light of the epidemiological situation, the growing number of infections, gods alarming data that are provided to us by the hospital management, by non-compliance of the prescriptions on behalf of the citizens, I ask on behalf of all the pediatric nurses of the Order of the province of Naples more restrictive measures for the protection of public health and the safeguarding of our professional family “, says the president of the Neapolitan Order of Nurses, Ciro Carbone. “Enough with the dribble of responsibility – is the appeal of the OPI – Politics plays the role of direction that the Constitution assigns them. Now the risk is high ”.
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