The health structure of the Aou di Sassari no longer bears the weight of hospitalizations.
The assault on the emergency room of patients, mostly affected by Covid, led the medical director of the university hospital, Francesco Luigi Bandiera, to write to the prefect of Sassari, Paola Dessì, to the mayor of Sassari, Nanni Campus, and to the regional health department.
The fourth pandemic wave, currently underway, caused by a prevalence of the highly contagious Omicron variant and the continuous centralization of patients from peripheral hospitals, especially in Gallura and Nuorese, has in fact determined a serious overcrowding of the emergency room and the saturation of Covid wards.
The director therefore requests the activation of 12 beds in the intensive care unit of Nuoro, the availability of the sub-intensive and ordinary hospitalization stations of the Mater Olbia hospital and the centralization in Sassari of only complex cases with SARS infection. Cov-2, agreeing on the transfer with the director of the emergency room.
Furthermore, Bandiera urges the opening of wards with ordinary hospitalization with an adequate number of beds in the hospitals of Nuoro, Olbia and Oristano.
Alarming situation in the emergency room where at 8 am today there were 49 positive patients. “Many require respiratory assistance even with high oxygen flows - explains the director-. The number of patients has hardly fallen below 40 these days. Eight doctors and nine nurses are currently absent as they are positive for the molecular swab and the staff supported by doctors from other disciplines, such as internal medicine, oncology, geriatrics, are literally at the end of their lives. Strength".
And the situation is further complicated by the positivity to the molecular swab of 107 health workers including nurses, doctors, Oss and trainees.
