“Open the Covid beds or we end up in the red zone”, chaos on the manager of the Sicily Region

“Some doctors don’t want to take care of Covid patients” After the publication of the audio, which led the manager to be accused of “tampering” the data to be sent to the government to prevent Sicily from sliding into the orange zone, La Rocca goes on the counterattack. “I was pissed – says La Rocca – I told hospital and ASP managers that they had to apply the Region’s plan by allocating beds to Covid patients but they didn’t, they didn’t have the attributes to impose themselves on some doctors”. And here the first jab: “Because the truth is that there are doctors who are sacrificing themselves by giving their souls in this emergency and there are those who, on the other hand, do not want to take care of these patients in order to continue to manage intramorous patients”.

“Those audio – he adds – were a stimulus to accelerate the activation of seats. I perceived on the part of some managers the lack of awareness on the one hand for the increase in infections and on the other for the general economic crisis and therefore the need to accelerate “.

“False medical records in order not to allocate beds to the sick Covid “In the reconstruction of what happened, La Rocca then explains that two days after having sent the” vocals “(it was November 4) and finished the isolation for Covid being his negative buffer, he goes around the hospitals in Palermo:” I found 100 places in one day “.” In order not to empty some wards, to allocate places to Covid patients – accuses the super bureaucrat – there are those who wrote invented diagnoses in the medical records, I remember one that spoke of tuberculosis, but it wasn’t true. “

“When I went to the ‘Cervello’ hospital in Palermo – he says – I saw that in the pediatric emergency room there was only one girl doing her homework. I realized that there were 6-7 accesses a day in this ward which was only separate from a door from the Covid area: from there I received the desperate cries for help from Covid patients. That morning the staff had asked for overtime and did not want to move to the ward while there was someone in need. There was therefore the possibility of find places there but everything was still “. The pediatric emergency room was then destined for Covid, the small patients sorted to the Children’s hospital.

The Minister of Health sends the inspectors After the audio was published, the Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, defined the situation as “serious and unacceptable”. “We need immediate clarity. It is intolerable to try to circumvent the parameters on the monitoring of Covid data. The government through Minister Speranza has already taken steps to send inspectors immediately to Palermo”.

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