You risk having to convert other departments
SASSARI. The contagion curve is climbing exponentially, the Omicron variant is also rampant in Sassari and the Infectious Diseases department at the moment is not only full, but hosts more patients than its capacity. In fact, the Infectious and Pneumo-covids, despite the 33 available beds, are managing up to 37 patients, effectively transforming rooms for two into rooms for three patients. But the situation, already extremely difficult in itself, would become unsustainable if the percentage of hospitalizations were to increase. And statistically, given the drastic increase in the number of positives in the city, this is an absolutely plausible hypothesis. Suffice it to say that the ward is also short of pulse oximeters for monitoring the sick. In short, the scenario is of absolute emergency. Seven infected people were found in the emergency room yesterday morning alone, half of whom had contracted the Omicron variant. But the calls to 118 for positive cases were different throughout the day. Fortunately, symptoms are typically milder than in the Delta, and there is no need for hospitalization. Therefore patients are either managed with home isolation, or in cases to be monitored, are transferred to the Marino hospital in Alghero. However, the waterline of the Aou remains very thin, and it takes very little to blow the balance maintained up to now thanks to daily resignations and transfers to Alghero. The last solution that the company’s top management would like to adopt is to convert ordinary departments into areas with a covid vocation.
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