The situation in Ukraine with the consequent sanitary emergency worries Matteo Bassetti: “At the moment in Ukraine there is a need for doctors who know how to manage gunshot woundsspecialists in war medicine. There is a need for surgeons and orthopedists, less than infectious diseases but some colleagues have expressed their willingness to go and help. But I believe that today the greatest help can be given in the countries where the Ukrainians arrive like refugees. Maybe thinking of one task force europea with colleagues from different countries “.
The director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino Polyclinic in Genoa explains to beraking latest news that “the Ukrainian health system it’s like the Italian one of forty years ago, far behind. So there is a health problem, yes it is vaccinated against the Covid only the 33% of the population and this requires an organization at European level to provide assistance to refugees and allow them access to vaccines, adults and children “. Not only that. In Ukraine” there are some polio outbreaks and for this we need an overall reasoning on infectious diseases. Let’s not underestimate them seen in the West we are slowly emerging from the Covid emergency “.
In fact, the professor writes again on his social profiles, with the conflict in Ukraine, “we will have millions of displaced people, hospitals that will no longer have Covid priority, in these days trains and buses stormedwill be created tent city. You risk that over there the virus regains strength and we absolutely cannot allow and afford it. In addition to military and logistical aid, a campaign to prevent infectious diseases must be set up with vaccinations offered to all. There is no time to lose”.