“Pandemic plan never implemented, the Alzano hospital had to be closed”. Anticipation of PresaDiretta with the medical director – Video

The lesson of Bergamo it didn’t help. The sacrifice of doctors and nurses, that of thousands of people from Bergamo killed in a few weeks by an unknown virus – from which no one has protected them – did not teach anything. The second wave hit us more than the first. But what are the structural reasons for this failure? To understand it, PresaDiretta, Monday 1 February in prime time on Rai3 with the investigation “Once upon a time there was public health”, he will travel to Lombardy and then to Calabria to discover that where he skimped on prevention, where he focused on a hospital-centric model and where it was decided not to invest in local medicine have happened terrible trouble. Even in Milan, where the epidemiological tracing has completely failed.

“Until one does serious analysis of the critical issues of the first wave, the structural problems underlying this disaster will not be solved “, thinks so Giuseppe Marzulli, medical director of the hospital of Alzano Lombardo (infamous for the outbreak of the deadliest outbreak in Europe on 23 February), which in the first episode of the new season of PresaDiretta he gives us a dramatic testimony, which is essential to understand the origin of this tragedy. The total lack of preparation for the first wave, however negligence and not by chance, it is told by a key protagonist of the investigation into the massacre of the Val Seriana, on which the Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office has been working for ten months, with the hypotheses of crime of culpable epidemic and false in public documents and that currently sees five Lombard health managers among the suspects.

On 23 February, indigenous Covid patients had been hospitalized for a few days at the Alzano hospital, never been in China: in short, the virus had spread for weeks in Lombardy, but no one had noticed. Because no one had activated a monitoring, as required by the flu pandemic plan, which according to the Bergamo Public Prosecutor’s Office should have been activated starting from the first alarm bell launched by the World Health Organization on January 5 a year ago. That plan was not activated even after the formal request from the WHO on February 4th. It is precisely the failure to activate this pandemic plan, but also the criticalities of the excellent Lombard health model, the reform of the law 23, the treatment of medical and nursing staff, abandoned in the first phase, then praised in the second and finally mortified and intimidated during the new pandemic wave, which once again overwhelmed the hospitals of the richest region of Italy, will be some important junctions of the story that Riccardo Iacona will present to the public on Monday 1 February starting at 9.20pm with an investigation signed by Francesca Nava, Luigi Mastropaolo and Raffaele Manco.