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Italian hospitals collapse: Over 1,100 patients waiting to be admitted in Rome
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The worst situation is in Rome and its region, where more than 1,100 patients are waiting to be admitted, according to the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care (Simeu).
According to Simeu, the number of patients waiting in Piedmont has reached some 500, while in Lombardy and its capital, Milan, normal hospital admissions have been suspended in order to “free up” some beds for emergencies.
“Covid has slightly decreased in the last week, flu is spreading, but other viruses have also caused ‘overcrowding’ in hospitals and a very strong pressure on emergency services,” De Laco explained on Tuesday, according to local media.
In fact, in the week before Christmas, from December 18 to 24, “the influenza epidemic curve showed an incidence value never reached in previous seasons,” according to the latest epidemiological bulletin from the Higher Institute of Health.
As the situation worsens, doctors are becoming exhausted and there are a number of alarming articles in the Italian press: “Hospitals on the brink” was one headline in La Repubblica.
Regional councillors from the centre-left Democratic Party, Massimiliano Valeriani and Emanuela Droghei, visited two hospitals in the capital on Tuesday, the Umberto I and Sant’Andrea polyclinics, where they found a “very complex” situation due to the “large number of patients”.
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