Christmas: medical unions, don't loosen restrictions

(ANSA) - ROMA, 27 Nov - The "data show dirallentamento signals of epidemic growth from SarsCov2, tuttaviale of the hospital system overload conditions, conoccupazione ICUs and areas COVID particolarmenteelevata, impose not loosen the restrictive measures.

   Recall that in the last week there have been over 200 thousand new cases and 4,980 deaths while hospitalizations with symptoms are currently more than 34 thousand ".

This is the appeal of the Inter-union of the Medical, Health and Veterinary Management on the reopening around the Christmas holidays.

   The health personnel, "engaged every day - 7 days a week, day and night - in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, is faced with all kinds of critical issues due to the overcrowding of hospitals, which with the second wave affects the whole peninsula Any relaxation of restrictions - the medical unions state jointly - could therefore endanger both the lives of patients with COVID-19 and the health of patients with other diseases, whose prevention and treatment risks being sacrificed for the second time of a general underestimation of the risk of the pandemic recovery, on which doctors and healthcare managers had already launched all possible alarms during the summer. For the second time, public health workers are forced to make further sacrifices, including at the risk of personal health, as well as facing a situation of constant super work ".

(HANDLE).