Health, Nursing Up, De Palma: “Covid outbreak at Sant’Eugenio in Rome, the Health Department can tell us immediately how many nurses are infected in the three wards that have been closed for 48 hours”.
The President of the National Nurses Union: «We want to be informed in detail. It is necessary to open an internal investigation, because we understand that in many hospitals in Lazio the screening of already vaccinated health workers is very sporadic, to investigate possible new infections and their antibody level. Is it necessary to wait for the explosion of a new outbreak to swab all the staff and perhaps be forced to close one or more departments? ».
«In these hours we have already activated with our regional representatives and in the next few hours our official request will start to understand the numbers of infections of colleagues who work in the departments. Above all we want to know how many nurses already vaccinated have fallen ill again “
ROME SEPTEMBER 6 2021 – «We did not expect it, or at least we hoped it was not possible. With 70% of Italians already vaccinated, we thought this could not happen. Instead, there is never an end to the worst and it seems to be back to 2020, when the virus was king in hospitals and dozens of colleagues were infected every day. We are therefore not a little worried about the news of the closure of three wards, in recent days, at the Sant’Eugenio Hospital in Rome. Nephrology, Medicine and Geriatrics they remained officially inaccessible for at least two days.
The hours pass inexorably, our local contacts inform us of endless lines of colleagues at the Drive In for the tampon. On the spot, we want them to tell us how many nurses are already infected. And above all, for the protection of health professionals, we have already sent our official request which will arrive in the next few hours on the table of the Sanitary Directorate of Sant’Eugenio.
Nobody dares to hide the truth with laconic statements or with percentages that revolve around the facts, without centering the gravity of what is happening ».
Like this Antonio De Palma, National President of Nursing Up.
“I’m getting phone calls from worried colleagues at other Roman hospitals. At the same time, the journalists also call me to know exactly the numbers of the infected among the nurses. Also because it is natural that we should be the first to be informed about the facts, just as it is legitimate to think that those who have already been vaccinated have become infected.
As a trade union we owe answers, to our members, to public opinion. And in the face of such incidents, the representatives of the Government and the Regions also owe us some answers. How is an outbreak possible right now? Is it the Delta variant? So why are the official and final decisions on the third dose for healthcare professionals still delayed?
We only hear about the hypothesis, the vaccination obligation for everyone, but in the meantime the nurses, 16 months after the start of the pandemic, continue to jeopardize their lives in the wards “.
LAST HOUR – «With a very hasty press release, the Sanitary Directorate of Sant’Eugenio informs us this morning of the reopening of the three departments. But how? What happen? Close everything for 48 hours, swab all the hospital employees in a hurry, then as if nothing had happened, with a touch of a magic wand, reopen the wards, claiming that everything is under control. Citizens want the truth, we want to be informed. We ask to know what happened, how many nurses are infected, and above all with what frequency the staff is subjected to regular checks, with relative typology ».
Nurse Times editorial staff
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