“Covid patients hospitalized in the emergency room. Even for ten days “. The leader of the Progressives denounces it, Francesco Agus, who for weeks, or since the infections in Sardinia have increased again, has been working on the case. Target: shed light on the real situation, considering that doctors and nurses are gagged. The Ats and the Department of Health have prohibited health personnel from providing information on what is happening in the ward.
Agus, who is a member of the Health Commission in the Regional Council, had already asked and obtained to put on the agenda the hearing of the medical managers responsible for the emergency room of the island. Only those of Nuoro and Carbonia. All the others absent. Now the commission – led by the vice president Daniele Cocco after the torpedoing of Domenico Gallus passed to the Psd’Az – he tries again: tomorrow 1 September the commissioner is summoned to the Palace Mario Nieddu, the chief of Ats, Massimo Temussi, plus the extraordinary commissioners of Brotzu, Areus (Company of 118) and of the two Aou, the hospital-university companies of Cagliari and Sassari.
According to the news in the hands of Agus and the Progressives, admissions to the emergency room have a logic: I’m out of sack, that is, they leave the beds in the Covid wards of the medical area free, places that are decisive for the permanence of Sardinia in the white zone. As told by Sardinia Post, the Giunta and the Ats are already using another trick: in order not to exceed the maximum number of beds, they are closing entire departments to make room for Covid ones.
This strategy of converting beds into the treatment of the virus must have been decided because Ats and Giunta, in recent months, considered beds to be the only mattress. Without staff. But in case of checks this would also have resulted criminal implications, as medical and hospital assistance requires a precise number of doctors, nurses and obs. Conversely, by converting the departments, the staff is already there: it is only a question of assigning them to another task, in this specific case treating the virus.
Agus denounces the tricks of hospitalization in the emergency room: “These are not negligible figures – he also pointed out the other day -. Only to the Holy Trinity – the parent company specified – 26 patients are hospitalized and treated for Covid, five of which hosted from the day of August 15th “. These numbers refer to August 26th. It means that the infected remained in the emergency room beds, not registered, for about ten days with certainty.
The Progressives have made a count: “If the trend of the Holy Trinity is repeated in other health facilities on the island, we arrive at a hundred patients” treated in hospital but invisible to the national control room that evaluates hospitalizations to assign to each region a certain color. It is true that in this way Sardinia remains white, but the health situation is becoming explosive, especially to the detriment of those who have other diseases and cannot be treated. Think above all of cancer patients for whom the speed of assistance is a determining factor in blocking the tumor.
With yesterday’s health report, a quick count made by our newspaper made it possible to establish that on Terapie intensive the maximum threshold foreseen by the decree law of August has been exceeded: in Sardinia there are 204 beds in intensive care and i 27 are hospitalized. It means that patients with the virus are worth the 13.23 percent. The roof is 10. On the front of the medical area, or the hospitalizations in the ordinary Covid wards, there are 227 infected. They are worth the 13,98 percent of 1,623 beds available. The threshold not to be exceeded is equal to 243.45 hospitalizations. If only the 26 of the Holy Trinity were added to the 227, it would reach 253. LasSardegna would no longer be in the white zone.
“Urgent and official clarifications are needed – repeats Agus -: the risk is that, in order to defend the current white zone in a false way, the autumn is being mortgaged. When the beaches are empty and, as happened last year, all the problems will be dumped on the Sardinians ”. With hospitals full, “the health risks for everyone will be greater. The council – is the invitation of the regional councilor – clarify: the protection of health comes first, we need to stay focused and serious today to avoid closures in the coming months “. (al. car.)