Bologna, 6 May 2022 – The easing of the containment measures of the pandemic, together with the arrival of spring, has put thousands of people back on the move resulting increase in accidents, injuries, falls. So much so that the accesses in the Hospital emergency room of the Region are returning to pre Covid levels con waited that are putting patients to the test.
It is yesterday thewaiting 15 hours (before going to the ward) al Emergency room of the Major of Bologna by one 69 year old woman, with serious health problems. “My wife was hospitalized at 2 o’clock on Tuesday night at Ps del Maggiore with severe abdominal pain and vomiting due to a sub-occlusion due to renal colic, all complicated by the fact that my wife, due to an oncological disease, is a carrier of ostomy and a renal stent – says her husband, 73 years old -. Therefore we were advised, in case she had symptoms attributable to the malfunction of the stent, to go to the emergency room with priority: she was taken to the ward only at 17. I understand the crowding of a large hospital like the Major, but what I don’t understand is because whoever did the triage did not take into account my wife’s serious health problems “.
Another case happened only the day before, this time in the emergency room of Sant’Orsola of Bolognasaw one 80 year old woman wait eleven hours before being visited. To report the fact to the daughter, Chiara Pazzaglia, president of the Acli di Bologna, who made the fact known through social media. “We went out at 3.30 in the morning after the code of gravity that had been attributed to her from blue turned green, we do not know according to what criteria since no one had visited her. I felt helpless in front of my mother’s tears. , sitting on an iron chair. Not to mention that the next morning we had to go back because at a certain hour of the night the specialists are no longer there “.
The problems of emergency-urgency departments they are not only focused on the regional capital, but also on a Ferrara where, in the Cona hospital for a couple of days there have been longer waits than usual which have alerted both the unions and the Ausl. While a Scandianoin the province of Reggio Emiliathe hospital emergency room is closed for about a year and a half. This is due to the extension works that should make the department much more functional and modern. In fact, those in need of urgent care must go to the emergency room in Reggio which is about fifteen kilometers away, or to that of Sassuolo, twelve kilometers away.
The region is trying to come up with a plan to increase the staffing of the emergency room but, sometimes it is just there lack of physical spaces, determined by renovations, to provoke infinite expectations. And the complex problem of the development of the territorial medicine with clinics or health (or community) homes set up with a certain number of beds capable of absorbing less severe patients.