Lombardy, away from Covid account hospitalized with other pathologies

(ANSA) - MILAN, 12 JAN - Lombardy has asked the Ministry of Health not to count as hospitalizations due to coronavirus patients hospitalized for other diseases and then positive results. This is what the General Welfare Directorate explains in a note to "give a more realistic and objective representation of the pressure on hospitals caused by Covid". From Friday, the Region will again give the total number of positive patients but "will be able to distinguish within the 'positive Covid hospitalizations', which hospitalizations refer directly to a 'Covid-dependent' disease (pneumonia and severe respiratory failure)".

    "From Friday 14 January, the Lombardy Region will be able to distinguish within the 'positive Covid admissions' of its hospitals, which admissions refer directly to a 'Covid-dependent' disease (pneumonia and severe respiratory insufficiency) and which ones refer to patients hospitalized for other diseases and then positive pre-hospitalization buffers were found ", reads the note from the General Welfare Directorate of the Lombardy Region. "This - the note continues - is aimed at giving a more realistic and objective representation of the pressure on hospitals caused by Covid. For now, having not yet received new indications to this effect from the Ministry as per our request, the flow transferred will still be 'single', without therefore of the distinction specified above ".(HANDLE).