6/5/2023 0 Comments Washington post dr gridlockTo confront the strains, the civil protection force has erected 283 triage units in tents outside hospitals and other facilities in the hard-hit regions, to provide protected environment for patients to be assessed and treated.īorrelli has to date rejected suggestions that Italy erect a Wuhan-style hospital specifically to treat virus cases, saying officials have considered such a scenario but to date believe they can handle the outbreak with existing structures and mobile hospital units. A visiting World Health Organization mission made a public rebuke of the Italian government last week demanding that the “front-line heroes” of Italy’s virus crisis receive the protective equipment they need.Ĭivil protection chief Angelo Borrelli has insisted Italy is doing what it can, including centralizing the acquisition and distribution of specialized masks, which Italy doesn’t produce domestically. The plight of the Codogno medical staff has become emblematic of the challenges facing Lombardy’s health system, which has also been hit by a chronic shortage of protective masks. Several doctors, nurses and patients at Codogno’s hospital tested positive as well, since no protective measures had been taken when the patient first came to the emergency room a day earlier complaining of flu-like symptoms. 19, when the first patient tested positive. The Lombardy cluster was first registered in the tiny town of Codogno on Feb. While schools remained closed Monday in the hardest-hit regions, the Duomo catherdral in Milan, Italy’s financial hub, reopened to tourists. In recent days, the United States issued a travel advisory warning American citizens against visiting. Lombardy and Veneto, along with another northern region, Emilia-Romagna have registered a total of 52 deaths in patients with the virus, Borrelli said, with 18 of those deaths occurring on Monday.Īuthorities have stressed that the deaths have occurred in people who were already weakened by chronic diseases like kidney ailments, diabetes and heart problems, and many of those who died were in their 80s or 90s. Fontana has been working and sleeping in his office, appearing at each day’s virus briefing via video. A second member of the regional government tested positive Monday, forcing the entire regional government to undergo testing. Gridlock, Robert Thomson, will be online to take all your questions about Metro, traffic throughout the region and other transportation issues. Underscoring the emergency, Fontana himself has been in quarantine for several days after one of his top aides tested positive for the virus. Private hospitals in Lombardy have offered up beds in intensive care units and more than a dozen doctors from the private sector have agreed to work in public hospitals to ease the crisis, regional president Attilio Fontana said.Regional authorities have asked Lombardy’s hospitals to reduce by 70 percent their planned or elective surgeries, to free up ICU beds for virus patients. We need personnel, especially qualified doctors,” Gallera told reporters.
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