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Italian doctors and nurses associations have warned that
the situation of all hospitals in the country is "on the verge of collapse"
having already exceeded the number of patients admitted for coronavirus of the first wave.
In Italy, infections on Wednesday surpassed the symbolic threshold of one million cases and with
29,500 people hospitalized, a figure that was never reached even during the first wave
.
Hospital centers "are now on the verge of collapse, due to lack of staff and lack of beds in the face of the abnormal influx of patients due to the rapid and dizzying spread of the Covid infection. Messages should not be given that calm the situation," they write in an open letter several associations of physicians, geriatricians and internal medicine nurses.
They denounce the
"dramatic hospital situation"
due to the Covid-19 pandemic and assure that
in many regions the occupancy rates of hospitals are now above 100%
and it is explained that access to them for non-Covid patients "is is reducing. "
"A likely consequence, if not certain, will be the
inability to guarantee quality standards
for the care of all chronic and acute non-covid patients," they add.
They denounce that the information that arrives is that the occupation of the covid areas of the hospitals is around 30 or 40% and that this "is not real."
"It is not what is represented and we all experience great difficulties every day to receive, attend and transfer the many patients who come to the emergency room in numbers greater than the receptive capacity of our structures," they warn.
The images of these days in Italy are those of
cars and ambulances lined up for hours in front
of hospital
emergencies
.
Those responsible for the Cotugno hospital in Naples explain that
there is no room for any patient either on the floors or in the ICU
, despite the lines of ambulances.
They explain that arriving patients undergo a rapid test, their oxygen saturation is measured and they are sent home or diverted to other centers in the region.
Sometimes they spend up to 10 hours inside the vehicles.
This Wednesday, one of the coronavirus-positive patients who had come to the Cardarelli in Naples was
found dead in one of the hospital bathrooms
.
The situation of Naples and its region,
Campania
, is at the center of the debate in the country since the Government continues to consider it a yellow zone, that is, not a high-risk zone and therefore without additional restrictions.
Italian media explain that
new government decisions
are expected on Friday
, including the situation in Campania and even a light confinement at the national level.
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