After awakening from the nightmare of March and April, the Bergamo retirement homes risk falling back into the darkness of pain, fatigue and suffering. Although no new outbreaks of bilateral interstitial pneumonia have developed within them, the mistakes made last winter risk being repeated: this time, however, if the second wave of infection from Sars-CoV- arrives in the rooms and corridors of the Orobic RSAs. 2, no one will be able to say that “we did not know what we were facing”. Because the mistakes made last winter should have taught a lot, in terms of prevention. And instead the feeling, among the operators, is that the months have passed in vain, that is, without those interventions that the operators in the sector deem “necessary” to prevent the coronavirus from returning to claim victims as it did in the spring, when , within some structures, caused a mortality rate of 50%, tripling or quadrupling the number of deaths among elderly guests compared to the same period in 2019.
“I don’t want to go so far as to say that months have been wasted – says Barbara Manzoni, the president of the San Giuseppe association, the organization that belongs to the Diocese of Bergamo and which brings together about thirty Catholic-inspired healthcare residences scattered throughout the provincial territory – but certainly the Lombardy Region and Ats Bergamo have listened little to us so far ».
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