(ANSA) - BOLZANO, NOV 14 - "Please go to the emergency room only in case of real emergency".
This is the appeal launched by the South Tyrolean Health Authority.
"In the emergency room, specialist staff take care of people in danger of life such as, for example, patients with heavy bleeding, broken bones, chest pains or heart attacks, poisoning, shortness of breath, stroke, etc. Many people could be treated instead. in a more appropriate way elsewhere ", reiterates the health authority.
Currently the emergency rooms in South Tyrol "continue to assist many people with blue and green codes - these codes are assigned in case of services that can be sent back, where there is no danger to life, and which therefore do not belong to the emergency room". "Not only the Covid departments, but also the emergency room services are particularly overloaded at the moment. In order for the first aid to continue to be efficient, it is essential that only towns and citizens with real and proper emergencies turn to this service. spread in the ward by infecting other people ", the note continues. (HANDLE).