Hospital doctors: 'The situation is very serious'

 The situation in the hospitals "is very serious and absolutely critical, with the emergency room and departments now clogged and the 118 flooded with calls: with this rate of infections by the second week of November intensive care will be saturated, while the places are already in great suffering in the ordinary and sub-intensive Covid departments ".

Carlo Palermo, secretary of the major of the unions of hospital doctors, Anaao-Assomed, underlines this to ANSA.

The new dpcm, he says, is "a balance between economic and health needs, but it may not be enough". 

What is outlined through the measures of the new dpcm, Palermo notes, "is almost a lockdown in fact but if there were no concrete results in terms of reducing infections, then a total lockdown will be inevitable".

It is in fact "evident that the pressure on hospitals is becoming unbearable, since - he highlights - the possibility of containing the epidemic through local services has practically disappeared".

This is because, Palermo notes, "swabs are not enough, home care is almost absent with the Usca medical units for home care that have organic problems, and with the tracking system now impossible given the very high number of contagions ".

In this context, he concludes, "the only garrison to which citizens are turning en masse are precisely the hospitals, which are, however, also besieged by patients with little symptoms who would not need hospital treatment or by citizens who require tampons. ".