Hospitals in northern Italy are struggling to make room for the onslaught of coronavirus patients. The AP got a first-hand look, visiting a hospital in one of the country's hardest-hit provinces.
Cattaneo’s new ICU added six more beds to the hospital’s capacity, bringing to 42 the number of ICU beds dedicated to the virus. Across the Lombardy region, local authorities are pushing ahead with plans to build a 400-bed ICU field hospital at the Milan fairgrounds, even though the civil protection agency has warned that it doesn’t have the ventilators or personnel to staff it, and that time is running out.
For the past two days, Brescia actually outpaced Bergamo in the number of new infections, on Tuesday adding another 382 positive tests for a total of 3,300 and suggesting that it is becoming Lombardy’s hottest hot spot. “In the last few days, the number of people arriving here on their own and reporting such symptoms has increased,” Perone said outside the civil protection tents where walk-in patients are tested and then sent to the hospital’s converted laundry room to await the results.
The 25 billion euro aid package the Italian government approved Monday, aimed at bolstering both the health care system and helping businesses, workers and families weather the economic hit, also contains provisions to hire 10,000 more medical personnel. “We have to redefine the priorities in the fight,” said Filippo Anelli, head of the doctors’ federation. “It’s unfathomable, unworthy of a civil society and puts public health at risk.”
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