Covid: Emergency aid haywire in Palermo, the critical threshold exceeded

PALERMO – The Covid emergency rooms of the Cervello hospital, Termini Imerese and Partinico are now full. The brain overcrowding index is 155%. Also high in Partinico where in the last few hours several ambulances have been hijacked that often wait for hours.

“The situation in the emergency room has exceeded the limit – explain the doctors from the hospitals – We await the next decisions by the leaders of the Region”. Several ambulances from Palermo, as happened in recent days, were diverted to Partinico. But even here the situation is at the limit ».

Based on the provisional data transmitted by the commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, in the Municipality of Palermo the number of new positives in the week from March 30 to April 5 is equal to 1763, i.e. 275.2 per 100 thousand inhabitants. Yesterday, with reference to the week from March 28 to April 3, it was 251.3. The processing is by the statistical office of the Municipality of Palermo. The data – says the Municipality – are defined as “provisional” because the weekly report of the commissioner’s office is drawn up on Thursdays. But remember that if you exceed the threshold of 250 positives per 100,000 inhabitants, the red zone is triggered automatically.

In any case, the decision, now almost certain, to declare Palermo red zone is expected by today. Yesterday Sicily registered 909 new infections and of these 597 were in the province of Palermo. The president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci stressed yesterday that “the parameters for declaring the red zone had not yet been reached” but did not rule out the adoption of the measure.