He died waiting for the molecular swab for the covid. After hours in an ambulance outside the Sulmona hospital and the night lying on an uncomfortable stretcher inside. Attilio Caranfa, 80 year old from Rome and domiciled in Villalago (L’Aquila), died in the former emergency room, which was effectively transformed into a Covid area despite not being equipped to treat patients infected with the virus. The elder was positive for rapid swab and awaited the response of the molecular test.
A death that comes after weeks for the doctors of the hospital, the trade union, the CISL, protesting the lack of staff, beds, organization. As if the months since the first wave had passed in vain. In recent days the operators had in fact threatened to go to the legal lvie while just this night the insiders were thinking of asking for the intervention of the Nas to trigger the investigations and checks of the case in that narrow and dangerous space.
A real illegal covid area that has recently hosted up to ten patients, six in the last hours, despite not having a negative pressure area and what is needed for the treatment of Covid patients. After the death was ascertained, the ritual procedures were initiated and it is not excluded that, urged by the staff of the department, the carabinieri would intervene to check whether the death of the elderly person could or could not have been avoided if there had been an equipped area.
One of the first to denounce the emergency situation of the Sulmona hospital between covid and lack of beds, as we said, was the CISL Medici which in the days passed sent a document to the General Management, asking that “the hospital of Sulmona can improve its organization always keeping in mind the good of the patient and that of the operators “.
“As if seven months had not elapsed at all, we are once again in full health emergency that leads to the lack of beds. For this reason, a patient who arrives at the emergency room in Sulmona and needs hospitalization risks having to wait even more than a day before a place is free in the region – underlines Gianna Tollis, head of CISL Medici – L ‘ assistance is ensured by the already lacking first aid staff who are divided between normal first aid, pre-triage and, now, the old first aid, where patients waiting for a bed are moved “.
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