Covid @ casa, from Monday ASL physiotherapists in the field © Asl Bari
Personalized home rehabilitation treatments for patients still positive or cured of Covid with teams of physiotherapists dedicated to them who will also be operational with telemedicine systems as early as Monday 7 June in all the health and social districts of the province of Bari. It is the new model of territorial health care designed by the ASL of Bari which this morning started the training of the first 29 physiotherapists, scheduled for tomorrow, in the conference room of the Civil Protection of the Fiera del Levante. Physiotherapists will be involved in the district rehabilitation teams, as part of the Covid @ casa project, promoted by the Puglia Region, Aress and Regional Civil Protection and intended for the post-Covid rehabilitation of patients who have contracted the infection.
For health councilor Pier Luigi Lopalco – who spoke on the opening day of the training – “Covid was a tragedy – he said – we are committed to relaunching a new vision of the health system, and home rehabilitation care is indicative of this work. The professionals who will work on Covid patients in this period – added Lopalco – will remain embedded in the system, they will be used to strengthen the proximity assistance services that are part of our health vision “.
Councilor Lopalco then took the opportunity to send a message to all people under the age of fifty: “Attention – he said – the coronavirus can be a bad infection even for those who are younger and have no pathologies. This is why in Puglia, once all the most fragile people and the vast majority of people over sixty have been made safe, we must achieve high coverage among the youngest. Because the virus continues to circulate, even if it has loosened its grip: if we do not see people in the hospital it is because we are vaccinating. In the fall, if we don’t use this moment of the summer break to complete the vaccination campaign, we will see people in the hospital again because they have not vaccinated. This phenomenon is already visible in other countries such as the UK. It is in the pockets of the unvaccinated population that the virus continues to circulate and do damage, even among young people. This is why we have opened, according to the instructions of Commissioner Figliuolo, to all age groups.
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