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“The great challenge of our health care Assisting the chronically ill at home”

by Barbara Calderola “It is impossible to recover what was lost due to Sars-CoV2. 30% is a number beyond the reach of any company”. Marco Trivelli, new general manager of Asst Brianza, clarifies the concept at his first public appearance at the helm of the healthcare giant from Brianza. A visit to the new vaccination centers in Lissone organized with the Municipality turns into a programmatic declaration: “We need a pact with the territory. We must open ourselves to family doctors, to rehabilitation centers, …

by Barbara Calderola

“It is impossible to recover what was lost due to Sars-CoV2. 30% is a number beyond the reach of any company”. Marco Trivelli, new general manager of Asst Brianza, clarifies the concept at his first public appearance at the helm of the healthcare giant from Brianza. A visit to the new vaccination centers of Lissone organized with the Municipality turns into a programmatic declaration: “We need a pact with the territory. We must open ourselves to family doctors, to rehabilitation centers, outside. Healthcare is much greater than how much it does not appear from the inside, even of a company like ours, which is huge and with many articulations “.

Departments, clinics, day care centers, residential communities, there is also a strong socio-assistance component, “but we cannot claim to treat the patient entirely by ourselves”. This is the knot to be solved in order to reorganize, “to live with Covid, because the virus will remain for a long time”.

Confirmation also arrives for the recovery of the former hospital in Vimercate and more generally the desire “to follow the path traced by Nunzio Del Sorbo, who preceded me”. He speaks of the strong roots, “our patients are faithful, they turn to other structures only in exceptional cases and this is a patrimony especially for the chronic, the real great challenge that awaits us. People remain in the ward 10 days a year, in the other 355 it is up to us to find a way to assist them at home without leaving them alone “.

In his curriculum he has passages to Niguarda and Brescia “with a strong hospital vocation” and is ready to embark on the opposite enterprise to give breath to the characteristic of Brianza healthcare “the link with the territory”. The myriad of services scattered throughout the province tells of the mission that “we must enhance”. Without neglecting the battle against the virus. “The contagion is rising here too. For weeks the hospitalizations have not dropped and in Desio we have reopened the Intensive Care for two very serious cases”.

Yesterday, the Covid patients were 145, between Vimercate (72), Desio (62) and Carate (11). While we are preparing to intensify the vaccination campaign. Here, the over 80s who will have the Pfizer puncture next week will be 2,720 against 500 in the first few days. “It is the key issue – says Trivelli – but linked to supply. In Lombardy 700 thousand doses arrive per month, as much as our catchment area. Until they increase we cannot be safe”. Meanwhile, he prepares the machine for the days of large numbers: vaccination centers, agreements with family doctors and pharmacies, “essential conditions for achieving herd immunity as soon as possible”.

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