“I just finished a 12-hour shift in the Cotugno Emergency Room and since this morning the regional dispatch center has not been able to find either an intensive care or sub-intensive care space in any hospital in Campania.”
Giovanni Lombardi wrote this this morning on his Facebook page. As mayor of Calvi Risorta, in the province of Caserta, but above all as an anesthetist-resuscitator. He is personally experiencing, at the 'Cotugno' in Naples, the immense difficulties of this 'third wave' and is acting as spokesperson, also thanks to his institutional role, of the drama that hospitals are experiencing.
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“This means that we are forced to leave critical patients in non-intensive care wards due to a lack of beds,” Lombardi writes. And then he adds:
“The variant (especially the English one) seems to be more aggressive and capable of affecting even young people, ventilators are in short supply and, to reduce the pressure on hospitals, a new and serious lockdown is urgently needed because, at the moment, healthcare is no longer guaranteed”.
Article published on March 6, 2021 - 12pm
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