Why Arcuri dumps the anti Covid delays on the regions
Regions could begin implementing the plans in May on beds and intensive care, and would have been reimbursed, but they did not. Arcuri's accusations
The infections from Covid-19 continue to grow. In Lombardy , Campania, Umbria and Valle d'Aosta the 30% of beds that can be reserved for Covid patients are already full.
Although the second wave was foreseen, Italy is caught unprepared. Whose fault is it? Of the Regions, according to the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri, which could have equipped themselves, as per article 2 of the Relaunch decree, but did not.
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THE ACCUSATIONS OF ARCURI
Let's start with the pebble from the shoe that Domenico Arcuri, extraordinary commissioner for the emergency, took off. "In recent weeks it has been said several times that the Covid hospital strengthening plan would be delayed because the commissioner, having received the regional strengthening plans on July 28 and having produced the preparatory documents for their activation on October 1, would have lost time , which is why the Regions could not have equipped the hospitals in time to face the second wave ”, Arcuri said yesterday, specifying that the blame for the delays is instead attributable to the individual regions.
THE REGIONS COULD ACTIVATE AS OF MAY
In fact, the Regions had been given the opportunity to equip themselves as early as May. "I invite you to read paragraph 14 of article 2 of the May Relaunch Decree", Arcuri underlined yesterday, noting the passage in which it is expected that "if the region has already carried out all or part of the works before this decree-law, the Commissioner is authorized to finance them ".
"They could have started to implement the preparations in May, and they would have been reimbursed", highlights Arcuri, hoping that "the controversy will be eliminated".
TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF TWO YEARS
Not only. “On average, the plans presented by the Regions provide for implementation times of two years”, therefore “they would have seen the end of construction at the end in 2022”, specifies Arcuri.
THE SYSTEM (STILL) RESISTS
The good news is that the system still holds up. "We do not have a problem of crowding intensive care, but hospitals". What is certain is that if the infections continue to double from week to week, then the delays, attributable aside, will be paid dearly.
THE ALARM FROM THE PRESS
La Stampa rattles off a few numbers on crowding. At the moment, in Italy, there are only 477 beds available for Covid patients without the risk of collapsing emergencies.
In Lombardy, Campania, Umbria and Valle d'Aosta, 30% of the places reserved for Covid patients are full.
APPEAL TO BASIC DOCTORS
In order for the hospitals to keep as much as possible, Arcuri turns to general practitioners, asking for their help: “they will have to help us even more than they have done so far. We must ask them to treat as much as possible at home, equipping them with the appropriate safety devices. We must at all costs ease the pressure on the hospitals ”, said the extraordinary Commissioner.
LOTS OF INFECTIONS, BUT WE ARE IN ANOTHER WORLD
There was no lack of comforting words from Arcuri. “We are experiencing a new drama, but to face it we need to understand how different it is,” said Arcuri, arguing that “we are in another world, before the virus ran stronger than us, ran and killed. Now we chase it and hit it, ”he added.
"We plan to increase the daily capacity of swabs to at least 200 thousand and from Monday we will carry out at least another 100 thousand antigenic rapid molecular tests, so a screening of 300 thousand Italians will be possible", Arcuri then commented, recalling that in March "26 thousand tampons a day ". Even on the sick front we are in another world: "In March 7% of patients were hospitalized in intensive care, today 0.6%, another world".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/sanita/perche-arcuri-scarica-sulle-regioni-i-ritardi-anti-covid/ on Fri, 30 Oct 2020 08:35:40 +0000.