In Italy there are at least 20 thousand between medici e nurses stuck at home with the Covid. In hospitals, serious problems are being created for the guarantee of services. Also because hospitalizations are increasing in parallel, with a signal that should not be underestimated concerning minors.
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In the ward there are too many uncovered boxes: this means being forced to merge the departments, but also to postpone what can be deferred, such as outpatient activities and scheduled surgeries. The effect of the slowdown will be to lengthen waiting lists. Some examples, taking two major regions: in Emilia-Romagna there are already more than 1,300 health workers stopped by Covid (“and the staff in service is now exhausted” say the trade unions). In Lazio there are at least 2,000.
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On the other hand the Omicron 5 it is spreading very rapidly, even yesterday there were almost 108,000 cases, with a positivity rate of 28 percent. In Italy there are 1,146,034 infected people (with many reinfections and a recent study argues that those who take Covid for the second time are at greater risk of hospitalization): statistically it is obvious that there are also many health workers. On the one hand, doctors and nurses are decreasing due to infections, on the other, hospitalizations are increasing, 8 thousand has been largely exceeded. “It is worrying that we also see more and more often children and very young people who have to be hospitalized due to the symptoms of Covid” says Giovanni Migliore, president of Fiaso (the federation of health companies) and general manager of the Bari Polyclinic. Just yesterday Fiaso has released data from which it emerges that pediatric hospitalizations due to Covid double in one week: they are mainly children between 0 and 4 years. There was an overall increase of 84 percent among the under 18s. Professor Alberto Villani, head of General Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, explained: “These data confirm that the increase in the circulation of the virus involves the developmental age with methods and characteristics comparable to those of the general population: increase in contagiousness and in the number of infected presenting symptoms and consequent increase in hospital admissions “. Hospitals are in trouble because operators are becoming infected, on the other hand the presence of Covid patients is progressively increasing.
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How does it come out? Best explains: «Those who run healthcare companies and hospitals like us have a double responsibility: to protect the health of patients and at the same time protect the staff. This is why we continue to carry out constant checks, with swabs, among employees. With such a high circulation of the virus, of course, many positives are found. But this also happens in other services of primary importance, it must be said. Faced with a shortage of personnel, we respond by respecting a hierarchy of services ». It means that emergency-urgency is guaranteed, what is not essential is postponed, such as outpatient activities and elective interventions. The hope of regaining lost positions on the waiting list is fading.
EMERGENCY ROOM
The emergency rooms are also in tremendous trouble. If until some time ago the positives among the hospitalized were mostly patients who ended up in hospital for other reasons and then turned out to be infected at the test, now the most significant part goes to the emergency room precisely for the symptoms of Covid. Carlo Palermo, president of Anaao-Assomed, the association that brings together leading doctors: “The stop of so many health workers due to Covid risks paralyzing public hospitals where, even for holidays to be disposed of, there is still a shortage of personal. We need to clearly explain to people that we need to continue to pay attention ». Starting with the use of masks which, according to Gianni Rezza, Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health, should also be used at concerts, such as that of the Maneskin scheduled for Saturday in Rome (even if in reality it would be a drop in the ocean because evenings in mega discos , concerts and large gatherings take place in Italy and Europe on a daily basis). Rezza: «Fortunately, Covid pneumonia is rare today. There is no hospital congestion thanks to vaccines and the fact that Omicron is a less aggressive variant than Delta. But getting sick remains a big inconvenience. If it can be avoided, it is better to avoid it ».
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