According to the indications of the last Dpcm, Piedmont is a red zone, an area where the severity of the coronavirus infection is very high. Together with Piedmont, Lombardy and Valle d’Aosta are also red zones, creating a single block for western Italy (excluding Liguria) and Calabria, the only southern region to be included among those in greatest danger. There are 21 parameters that led the experts to define the areas of the country, which are not watertight but can be changed from time to time with the new analyzes of the new data. According to those criteria, it is easier for a region to pass from an area of lower risk to one of greater risk, even in 24 hours, but the opposite is more difficult for which it takes, however, at least 14 days. It is from Piedmont that one of the symbolic photos of the second wave arrives, a shot that went viral that was taken inside theHospital of Rivoli, in the province of Turin.
“Rivoli Hospital, Turin. Months of preparation for the second wave, money allocated to rain. Is this the health we deserve?“he wrote in the morning Myrta Merlino, presenter of La7 sharing the photograph. The image is very clear: the corridors of the emergency room of the hospital on the outskirts of Turin have no more beds. Covid positive patients are placed on the floor, up field stretchers and attached to oxygen cylinders, while the ward tries to find a bed for everyone. An increasingly difficult undertaking, as the nurses’ union points out. “Covid patients on the ground, dirty paths clean readjusted by staff, jobs never done, territory non-existent and hires that had to come first. Here are the dramatic conditions of Piedmontese healthcare. We have no more words“, they denounce. In recent days, some tensile structures have also been installed in the Turin facility to streamline Covid triage operations, leaving the emergency room free to work on other pathologies.
The overload of the Rivoli hospital seems to come from the closure of the emergency rooms of the Martini hospital in Turin, Venaria and Giaveno. However, a The print the hospital says that “ambulances from us they don’t wait with patients on board and above all they are not sent back: it is obvious that some uncomfortable situation may occur, just for the time to find a solution. In any case, let’s hope it won’t happen again“. Meanwhile, last night the hospital in Novara closed access to the emergency room for three hours due to the excess of patients, almost all presumed Covid, entering. Until 10 pm, the new arrivals were diverted to Vercelli, until the hospital disposed of the 50 people waiting for a visit, sorting them into the various departments.
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