The unions of doctors: “Do not relax the anti-Covid measures for Christmas. Understandable needs of the economy, but overloaded hospitals”

“Do not loosen the restrictive measures”. I labor unions gods medical executives ask that the anti-Covid standard in the Christmas period because, even if the curve of new cases grows less quickly, the hospitals remain in “overload” with an occupation of the beds in Terapie intensive e Covid departments “Particularly high”. The data, is the appeal of the Inter-union of the Medical and Health Management, “show signs of a slowdown in the growth of the epidemic from Sars-CoV-2 ″, however, “the overload conditions of the hospital system, with particularly high occupancy of intensive care units and Covid areas, require that restrictive measures not be relaxed. Recall that in the last week they have counted over 200 thousand new cases e 4,980 deaths while hospitalizations with symptoms are currently more than 34mila ”.

The healthcare personnel, “Engaged daily – 7 days a week, day and night – in the lotta against the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic, it is facing critical issues of any kind due to overcrowding of hospitals, which with the second wave affects the whole peninsula “. Any relaxation of restrictions – the medical unions state jointly – “could, therefore, put at risk both the vita of Covid-19 patients as much as the health of patients with other pathologies, whose prevention and treatment risks being sacrificed for the second time due to a general underestimation of the risk of the pandemic recovery ”, on which, the Intersindacale recalls, doctors and health managers“ had launched all possible alarms already during the summer “. Instead, the unions underline, “public health workers are forced to further sacrifices even at the risk of personal health, as well as facing a situation of constant overwork “.

Although it is “clear that decisions are not up to professionals but to politics, the Intersindacale underlines that it is, instead, the precise task of those who work on the front line to photograph the situation” and “favor informed choices, as it is now scientifically established that times of onset clinical manifestations subsequent to the infection impact with huge numbers for about a month after the appearance of the outbreaks on the hospital system, starting from its territorial interface 118, passing through the entrance door of the First aid, to get to the Covid departments and to the last frontier of resuscitation “. So they turn to Parliament, the government and the Regions to listen to “the tens and tens of thousands of colleagues who for months they work relentlessly in the territorial emergency and in hospitals, embittered for the debate going on reopening “ that, “under the pur understandable needs of the economy ”, conceals “Undervaluations” of the “risk of a resumption of the pandemic that could add up in the coming months to the seasonal spread ofinfluenza”.

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