ROVIGO «I understand the moment of generalized anxiety, but it is not acceptable that there are attacks towards i medici. Still, there were people who were afraid and angry, who took it out on their family doctor because they had run out of vaccines flu, as if it were their fault, and others who instead stormed them with phone calls, at any time of day or night, for aspects related to isolation, certificates or tampons: it takes patience and you have to realize the moment of epochal difficulty that all doctors are experiencing ».
THE POLESAN ORDER
Patience as a medicine to calm the waters is the “prescription” that comes from the president of theOrder of doctors of Rovigo Francesco Noce, who highlights the complexity of the situation: «At this moment, among other things, there are three general practitioners who are positive, one of whom, from Costa, is hospitalized. For another, we are waiting in these hours for the outcome of the molecular buffer. Obviously, they got infected in the workplace, because family doctors are exposed to a very high and continuous risk. With consequent inconvenience, because in some cases, precisely in consideration of the risk, people try to be separated from their families. I understand that there were also three contagion as for general practitioners, medical guards. And this with heavy repercussions on the whole system of territorial medicine. Also because there are already some serious gaps ».
BAND DESERT
The reference is to the three positions of general practitioner for which the last call was deserted. These are two places between Bergantino, Castelmassa Castelnovo Bariano and Melara, in particular in the clinics of Castelnovo Bariano and Melara, for 1,500 patients each, as well as that of the Ariano clinic, which also covers the municipalities of Taglio di Po and Corbola, for another 1,200 patients. The new call provides that in the absence of applications, the ULSS can also draw on graduates who are still attending the training course in general medicine. «It is a great effort, there are no doctors due to the wrong programming in recent years, we have been denouncing this situation for at least ten years and the epidemic has only exacerbated the latent situation. In a while, we risk having two more areas discovered by general practitioners, because two more are added to the three. There is also a lack of doctors for the emergency medical service, the situation is becoming really difficult. As an Order together with the ULSS we are taking action to try to tackle this problem of deficient areas, but it is not easy, if we cannot find available doctors, the only solution will be to increase the ceilings for each doctor, even if this means increasing workloads at an already very difficult time ».
EXASPERED CITIZENS
The regret of President Noce seems to be in the perception of a difficulty in understanding by the population of these difficulties: «In this period, doctors are overwhelmed with work. Because alongside what there was traditionally, and fortunately still of flu, there have been only a few cases compared to the past, I think both for a set of factors, both for the greater diffusion of the vaccine and for the use of masks and attention to distancing, now there is all the additional work related to Covid, with the related problems for certificates, tampons, tracking and isolations, for end-of-quarantine certificates. We can not help but live for the day. We hope to have reached the peak of this second wave, what is certain is that the situation is not yet calm at all and if a further wave were to reappear between January and February it would be very heavy. Christmas is very important, in many ways, but first of all comes health. Because it is true that health is not everything, but without health everything else is nothing. Let’s think about getting out of this situation as soon as possible ».
THE EXPERIMENTS
All this does not prevent us from carrying out important experiments: “As a territorial medicine – explains Noce – we are carrying out the experimentation on hydroxychloroquine, in agreement with Pneumology, it is a vast project involving a group of doctors from Rovigo, approved by the committee ethical and scientific. Here it has been used with satisfactory results also in the past, so maybe we will also do the retrospective work. Obviously with all the necessary precautions ».
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