Foggia, January 23, 2021. It was 1 asymptomatic patient admitted to Lastaria, a healthy carrier positivizzatosi after three negative swabs and negative serological, then after a double control system, to determine the series of infections in the Medicine department of the hospital plexus of Lucera, belonging to the Policlinico Riuniti of Foggia. A school case.
The first contact took place on January 10, 2021 and from that moment the emergency procedure was immediately triggered, which aimed to control the potential infection and containment to pilot the epidemic crisis to the maximum within the Lastaria hospital complex.
The rigorous corporate emergency-type procedure provided for the transfer of positive patients to Covid wards, fiduciary isolation for positive operators, the accommodation of negative patients in the Medicine and Geriatric departments prudently in single rooms, the sanitization of all environments and the temporary blocking of admissions for an estimated period of 7 days, both from the gray area of Lastaria, which allows direct access to admission, and from the Foggia Emergency Department.
About 250 swabs which were carried out systematically to the patients at 48 hour rhythms.
In addition, according to company protocol, all negative health workers have been subjected to a double swab and awaiting the third, scheduled between Wednesday and Thursday next week.
All infected health workers (11 including 2 doctors and 9 nurses, Oss and auxiliaries) are pauci-symptomatic or asymptomatic. Ten of these health care workers had already been vaccinated for the first dose. For positive patients (15) there is no news of worsening of the clinical picture and their conditions are related exclusively to the pathologies for which they were hospitalized.
“We are countering the series of infections that unfortunately occurred with severe emergency procedures, immediately implemented, which are determining a containment and control of the transmission of the virus – declared the Extraordinary Commissioner of the Policlinico Riuniti Dott. Vitangelo Dattoli. These are unrecognized and highly insidious cases that occur at the same time as the flu peak, but which we can contain and resolve thanks to the punctual rigor of the procedures and the numerous attentions, with the hope that everything will be resolved as soon as possible “.
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