It is an outlet, that of Guido Iafather, general practitioner, symptomatic positive for covid-19, which explains in a few lines the disastrous management of the emergency in the province of L’Aquila.
“I come from a long period of activity that has almost never stopped, not even in the summer, when we tried to reactivate the pathways of diagnosis and treatment for fragile patients or patients suffering from chronic diseases who had been savagely interrupted by the spread of the infection, which has concentrated all the human and material resources of public health in the fight against Covid “, explains the father.
The indication was: the other pathologies do not stop because there is a pandemic, General Medicine returns to its specific function, which is to assist all citizens in the conservation and recovery of their state of health. Regions and ASL will take care of preparing the National Health Service for the second wave.
“The second wave has arrived. The family doctors and their practices have again been stormed. And today I find myself at home in isolation, I am symptomatic, I contracted Covid by visiting positive patients, even with the necessary devices provided to me in completely insufficient quantities by the Civil Protection and not by the ASL. Now: who is responsible for my illness, given that I was not imprudent, that I followed all the procedures, that I basically did what was my moral and contractual duty? “, Asks the father. And again:” who will take care of the my patients, now that their first point of reference has disappeared, the public health figure closest to them in terms of training and proximity? Maybe I should appoint a replacement, a young colleague who can go into trouble in my place, willing to take the same risk with the protection I had. Even if I found it, I wouldn’t. Fortunately, the network of solidarity between the colleagues who work with me still works well, who are replacing me in all or almost everything, increasing their shifts beyond belief both in the studio in the city and in the one in Paganica “.
But the father returns to the first question: what has been done for Territorial Medicine since the beginning of the pandemic? “Protective devices? Not even the shadow. Even when we offered ourselves en masse, in L’Aquila more than in the whole Region, to carry out serological tests for the school staff, we received a gown for every 5 tests and 1 pair of gloves every 2 tests (yes, you got it right: the ASL takes care of one hand, you have to take care of the other!) Support staff? Have local nurses and OSS been hired who should have been at our disposal to help us to attend the positives at home. Never seen. Influenza vaccines? Half of my patients over 65 are still waiting, because in two weeks I ran out of the quantities given to vaccinate the other half. Sixty-year-olds and chronic diseases are all We are waiting for 40 swabs each, with which we should test the tight contacts of the positives at the same 4 drive-in of the public facility at the times that they will leave us available. mponi us? They should have had a tampon a month, I only did one before I got sick, in May, so they reassured that the first wave had passed and I was ready for the second. And for now I’ll stop here, because I’m a little tired “.
Therefore, the father thanks “the President of the Region Marco Marsilio, who did a lot to prepare for the arrival of the second wave in L’Aquila and the Province; the General Manager of the ASL1 Roberto Testa, who said they work 12 hours a day to fight the pandemic; the Health Director of the ASL1 Sabrina Cicogna, who stated that she only arrived in May and could not do more; the Director of the L’Aquila District Aldo Giusti, which is doing so much to protect us, given that we are its most precious operators in the territory that has been entrusted to it. Thanks”.
To Guido Iapadre the best wishes for a very prompt recovery from the newstown editorial staff.
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