Here Naples – A pretriage was set up in front of the Cotugno in Naples to distinguish the most urgent situations and therefore allow priority assistance to those who must be brought into the hospital. The hospital staff provides assistance both to the sick who are in private ambulances and in the car. The Cotugno is the infectious emergency room of reference and is therefore stormed in peak periods like this one.
Chaos also in Palermo – The same scenes, in the last hours, also in Palermo with ambulances queuing for hours in front of the Cervello and the Civico, complete with protests by the stretcher bearers and emergency installation of external tensile structures. “Only for a few hours there was an emergency in the emergency room of the Brain. The situation was resolved with the assembly of the advanced medical post. It happened that a number of patients who exceeded receptivity concentrated in the same hours. of the emergency room which has over 50 stations “, said Tiziana Maniscalchi, head of the Covid emergency room at the Cervello hospital in Palermo.
In front of the hospital there were 14 ambulances, which remained in line for hours in front of the emergency area. “We hope that this peak – adds Maniscalchi – will last a few days because they are situations that put a strain on our work, the entire local health system. I expected these numbers because they are affected by the New Year, private parties and family reunions. Perhaps. in this phase it would have been more appropriate to reflect, be careful and think about the essential things. We hope to have reached the peak but the numbers do not suggest that the descent has begun, on the contrary “.
The head of the emergency area then takes stock of the situation: “The Cervello hospital, which also registered 90 accesses per day, currently has over 200 patients compared to a maximum capacity of 250 that we will reach with the activation of other places read. They are all serious cases – underlines Maniscalchi – and for the most part they are unvaccinated people “.
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Meanwhile, two other tensile structures are about to be installed at the Civico hospital and Villa Sofia, in Palermo, after the one installed at the Vincenzo Cervello hospital. The Department of Health has launched a project to support hospitals most under pressure for the Covid emergency and provides for the positioning of an advanced medical post adjacent to the emergency room. They are structures where it is possible to assist patients waiting to decide for hospitalization or discharge following diagnostic investigations in order to create an external outlet to the emergency rooms. Both the Red Cross and voluntary organizations, such as Public Aid, were involved.
The surgeon’s alarm: “We can’t cure everyone” – “Operating rooms decimated, the activity is almost at a standstill. We are back to 2020″. It is no longer possible to operate, those with a tumor must wait: this is the complaint of Marco Scatizzi, president of the Italian Hospital Surgeons Association (Acoi). ” It is hallucinating – he says – to unload the weight of this new wave on the health system by increasing the pressure on hospitals. We want to save lives, we want to be on the side of our patients, we want the entire National Health Service to work in every part of Italy. We do not want to be accomplices of those who, through negligence or non-compliance, endanger the lives of patients and surgeons themselves “.
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