(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 18 - Yes to home visits by general practitioners to Covid patients in home quarantine.
The go-ahead comes from the Council of State which has accepted the appeal of the Lazio Region against the sentence of the Tarche it had considered existing, on the basis of art.
4 bis of the Legislative Decree
n.
18/2020, the prohibition for general practitioners to make this type of visits.
Accepting the appeal of the Lazio Region, the Third Section of the Council of State clarified that "the sense of the emergency provision" is not to exempt general medicine doctors, but only "to relieve general medicine doctors, free-choice pediatricians and doctors care continuity, from the "load" deriving from the pandemic explosion, supporting them with a structure capable of intervening at the patient's home. "
The USCAR, provided for by art.
4 bis of Legislative Decree no.
18/2020 are therefore intended to operate in synergy and in compliance with the skills and prerogatives of general practitioners and other doctors indicated, who, knowledge and conscience and in compliance with safety protocols, can continue to carry out home visits, even if the patient is affected by Covid 19.
"This ruling definitively clarifies a particularly important point in the fight against the pandemic, namely the home management of patients who do not need hospitalization. Nobody can be called out, let alone basic medicine, and the organizational autonomy of the Regions is also safeguarded", comments Councilor for Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D'Amato.
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