General practitioners who recommend treatment with aspirin, mayors, like Robbio’s, who buy tampons out of their own pockets and distribute them house by house to people, because a real tracking is not done, doctors unreachable. Here is the photograph of territorial medicine in Lombardy more than nine months after the infection. A disheartening panorama. What has been done in all these months? Alessio Lasta.
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In Valseriana, one of the areas most affected by Covid, local medicine is struggling and since October the number of general practitioners has even decreased. “It is impossible to find them in our area, we have identified two in Genoa who have agreed to come and give us a hand”, says the mayor of Premolo (BG). In the meantime, those who have to take a molecular swab to find out if they have contracted Covid are forced to turn to private individuals, “spending between 80 and 120 euros”, says Dr. Andrea Adessi, head of the Onilab laboratory. “When we send the ASL report of the unsanitary tampons made privately, they tell us that even the molecular tampon, the only valid and recognized one, must be done privately. An absurdity from a public health perspective”.
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