Giallo Campania, inspectors visit hospitals and 4 patients die in an ambulance: “Beds in the Church”

Campania yet yellow zone as decided by the Ministry of Health pending the report of the inspectors sent by Minister Roberto Speranza who in the last 24 hours have visited the hospitals of Naples to ascertain the situation.

Meanwhile on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday four patients died in ambulance while awaiting hospitalization and a man, positive for coronavirus and suffering from pneumonia, who after a video-complaint published on social media and an appeal to the carabinieri managed to find a bed to be treated. In fact, hospital beds and not intensive care beds are in short supply, as well as medical staff who are, as repeatedly stressed by the governor Vincenzo De Luca, largely understaffed.

These are days of total chaos in the emergency roomSan Leonardo hospital of Castellammare di Stabia, municipality in the province of Naples. One of the most exposed garrisons of the Neapolitan metropolitan area. Exhausted health personnel, 118 operators waiting for hours in the hospital courtyard with covid-positive patients on board who died while waiting for a bed to become available.

A collapsing situation, as in other hospitals in Naples (Cardarelli, Cotugno and Ospedale del Mare), which could push the health management of the Stabiese hospital to set up new hospital beds in the hospital church. Among the people who died in an ambulance, the youngest is a 44 year old from Torre Annunziata.

Meanwhile, the appeal made by the wife of a coronavirus positive man suffering from pneumonia was accepted only after a video complaint via social media and the intervention of the carabinieri. The man, Mr. Michele L., has been waiting for now inside his car.

His wife, Rosa, explained what happened to the transmission there Radiazza, broadcast on Radio Marte, hosted by Gianni Simioli with the collaboration of the regional councilor Francesco Emilio Borrelli.

“My husband tested positive for covid on Saturday 7 November but the conditions gradually worsened, so yesterday evening (10 November, I decided to take him to the hospital, at San Leonardo, where, however, they did not get in. My husband was so forced into a car, we were the only ones in that state, and nobody ever came to us to check Michele’s condition. So taken by anger I shot and published that video-complaint and then I phoned to the carabinieri, only then did they let us in. My husband was first made to sit in a wheelchair and later on a stretcher “.

“HOSPITALIZATION FOR THOSE WITH KNOWLEDGE” – “I would like to point out that Michele suffers from asthmatic bronchitis and therefore would require special attention and instead we were completely ignored” continues the woman who then tells of some subjects who were welcomed in the hospital for personal acquaintances passing in front of her husband. “They said they had the saturation low and for this reason they hospitalized them immediately but my husband never measured it ”.

“We are very perplexed, to get medical assistance you should not be forced to resort to video-reporting or to call the police,” said Borrelli and Simioli. “Despite the difficult time we are going through, no one can be treated in this way and neglected by denying them due medical assistance, thus risking a man’s life. We sent a note to the San Leonardo hospital management for clarification on the matter, what happened would be very serious. We know the hard work they are doing in this hospital as in the others to provide maximum assistance especially in such a dramatic moment and for this we were amazed at what happened. In this moment of emergency we will continue to follow all health events and offer support to all those who need it “.

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