Nursing Up: 'Nurses at the end of their tether at San Leonardo in Castellammare'
«The paradoxical story of a hospital that is not officially considered a covid center but it is as if it were, given that it represents the only emergency room in a vast area that covers the health service of hundreds of thousands of patients.
Above all, a sad story of disorganization and bad management that have continued over the years, with a clear lack of adequate structures to deal with the pandemic emergency since its arrival.
As we write and tell you yet another glimpse of an Italian healthcare system in disarray, and it is no coincidence that we are still talking about Campania, in the last 48 hours three patients have died because the emergency room was so congested and inaccessible that, despite their serious conditions, they would have remained in the ambulances to receive the necessary care.
We are talking about the San Leonardo Hospital in Castellammare di Stabia which is still in the news: and in the middle of the mud swamp there are, of course, the nurses who experience first-hand, on a daily basis, the emergency and the structural deficiencies, as well as obviously the patients, in light of an ordinary healthcare system which with the explosion of Covid has practically become a mirage!
Thus Antonio De Palma, National President of Nursing Up, the Italian Nurses Union, denounces what is happening in the province of Naples.
"They tell us about incredible lines of ambulances piled up in front of the hospital, an almost inaccessible emergency room, a chronic shortage of staff. Our local contacts put a circular in our hands from the Health Directorate ASL Napoli 3 Sud asking all nurses, in a sort of crisis unit activation, to dedicate themselves completely to Covid patients, also given the continuation of infections in the city and the growing number of hospitalizations.
The nurses at the Stabia hospital are exhausted, and are paying for the tragedy of a totally disastrous healthcare system on their own skin: and so we ask ourselves who and why decided to close other nearby emergency rooms like Agerola and Bosco Tre Case, leaving a vast area that also includes patients from the Amalfi Coast at the mercy of Castellammare and Sorrento alone. Let's shed light on yet another desolate picture of an Italian healthcare system that is more shaky than ever."
Article published on 24 February 2021 - 14:05
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