Asugi and surgeries under pressure The “hunt” for infections becomes complicated

TRIESTE Symptoms indistinguishable from those of a trivial flu. The telephone line of the general practitioners office is always busy. The indications of the health company on how to manage a contact with a positive that do not arrive. Daily problems for the citizen in the second wave of the pandemic, with fewer serious cases, but also with an increase in positives which in October marks an average of 119 cases per day against 49 in March-April. According to Nino Cartabellotta, president of the Gimbe Foundation, the sharp rise in the positive / tested case ratio “certifies the failure of the testing & tracing system to stem the spread of infections”. The “first dam”, he adds, “has failed in particular in some regions such as Valle d’Aosta, one positive every three tests, and Liguria, one every four”.

In Fvg, in the last week, we are at one in seven (yesterday one in five). In a report from the Sole 24 Ore it emerges that our region pays for the shortage of employees for tracing and monitoring close contacts and cases in quarantine and isolation: only 99 officers, 0.8 per 100 thousand inhabitants, the only worse situation is Calabria.

The vice president of Friuli Venezia Giulia and councilor with responsibility for health Riccardo Riccardi, not surprisingly, has been stressing the staff problem for days, but assures us that «our tracking system, even if under pressure, remains one of the best. Let’s not forget that we started doing 200 tests a day and now we are at five thousand ». But how to recover from a virus that runs faster and faster? “We need faster swabs, perhaps those with saliva,” says the deputy governor, recalling the statements of the Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri who recommends that the quarantine be completed before the test. After that there are citizens who legitimately claim the right (duty) to know whether, after contact with a positive, they have contracted the infection. And that, in order to avoid transmitting it, at school or at work, they do it in private, paying for it, in the absence of answers from the health authority and general practitioners.

During the week Riccardi also made an appeal to the front line, hoping for better answers than those given so far, starting with the flop on serological tests for school staff, which no more than one general practitioner out of five joined. The commissioner, however, did not go to the clash, not in an emergency phase in which everyone is still trying to make a contribution.

In the meantime, a step towards users comes from the start of the communication service, coordinated by Arcs, of the negative results of the tampons via sms or automatic recall. Yesterday there were successful tests by the Central Friuli Company and from next week the departure will also affect Asugi and the Western Friuli Company. Specifically, non-infected people will be informed of the result via telephone message or via a landline call (up to three attempts at times and days other than the number 040 0647840).

The reports are also available in the electronic health file within the Sesamo platform and are also visible to general practitioners and pediatricians of free choice, if authorized for viewing by each patient.

Meanwhile, from Asugi comes an appeal “to a sense of responsibility and collaboration”. The mission of every healthcare company, reads a note, “is the protection of public health, and the mission of each of our professionals is to help citizens in all stages of the treatment process: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. In a moment of resurgence of Covid cases – informs Asugi – in order to better protect and assist the different situations, given the experience of the previous months, we have activated an expression of interest to seek the best solution in order to be able to assist and treat Covid positive non self-sufficient patients in an out-of-hospital setting. Residenza Villa Sissi participated and signed the agreement on 23 October. The invitation in these moments when the variable time is very precious is to collaborate all as much as possible in order to help us and protect public health. Then there will be times and ways to clarify any critical issues “.—

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