All hospitals in Sardinia will have to have areas for asymptomatic and paucisymptomatic coronavirus positive patients, those who have been hospitalized for other reasons and who find themselves infected. Currently in non-Covid structures they are placed in emergency rooms and in brief observations, and this is because in the six Covid centers - Santissima Trinità, Binaghi and Marino in Cagliari, San Francesco in Nuoro, Aou di Sassari and Mater Olbia - there is no more space .
To the microphones of the Videolina TG, the regional councilor for health, Mario Nieddu also anticipated that eleven Sardinian hospitals - the Marino of Alghero, the John Paul II of Olbia, the Nostra Signora della Mercede in Lanusei, the San Francesco di Nuoro, the San Martino di Oristano, Our Lady of Bonaria in San Gavino, the Cto di Iglesias, the San Pietro di Sassari clinics, the Santissima Trinità and San Michele (Arnas Brotzu) in Cagliari and the Casula di Monserrato Polyclinic - have been authorized to use monoclonal antibodies and antiviral therapies including Pfizer's "Paxlovid", which has just arrived in Sardinia with doses for the treatment of 113 patients.
The authorizations have been extended to minimize the impact on Covid centers, added Nieddu: "The doctors are exhausted: we have done everything to alleviate their discomfort and we will do so in the future also providing economic incentives, as is already the case. occurred during this pandemic ".
Yesterday the regional bulletin gave news of 1,347 new cases on the island and another five deaths, including a 50-year-old man.
(Unioneonline)
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