Enrico Clini already running hospitals for nearly 20 years. As is to think about the future of the head of the pulmonary department at the hospital Policlinico in the Italian city of Modena what it does best. But as Italy and other European countries take the first steps to block Clini and other Italian doctors who now how to prepare for the second phase of the onset crown: living with the virus. “No ones knows what will look like next year,” said Clini. “I think in weeks, not years.” How overwhelmed in other cities and towns of Emilia Romagna Italian northern region, officials have focused Modena spent on logistics in recent weeks. At the height of the crisis, Clini walked the two miles from his home to the hospital every day to the streets of empty pebbles of Modena, constantly racing figures for the head: the number of intensive care beds, as many security devices individual is available, how many nurses are sick. Stay up to date on the growing threat to global health, by signing up for our daily newsletter crown. Week woke up to a new optimistic figure in the last 15 days, his hospital has seen a 30% decrease in COVID-19 patients. For the first time since the beginning of the outbreak, the Emilia Romagna region has more people recover viewed as positive, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. But when a limited number of shops and businesses were allowed to reopen in some regions of Italy, including children’s libraries and homes, doctors and nurses are ready for a second wave of cases. “I’m afraid the shooting ground,” says Roberto Tonelli, a pulmonologist who has spent the last 6 weeks away from his 2-year-old daughter. “I understand the economy is going, re-start, but I can already see the parks and the streets filled with people, and I can not help but worry.” While European countries think slowly reopen hospitals think about how to adapt. “In recent weeks, all our usual patient disappeared overnight,” says Tonelli. “Now we have it, imagine how non-COVID COVID patients and treated equally.” Since late February, the Modena Polyclinic COVID 1,240 patients have seen an extraordinary number for a station of Pneumology usually 25 doctors and 13 nurses filled. He moved to react all his attention for the crown outbreak. “We will return, as it was, the problem is that we do not know if we are the right time to go back,” said Clini. Valentino Capone, a nurse of 27 years, who worked 12 to respond to shifts 16 hours a day for emergency, worries that the average for hospital staff. “If the number of victims will not make the front pages of newspapers, the job situation in the hospitals will be the same. To wash hands masks, protective equipment is our new normal.” Please send tips, leads and stories from the front to [email protected]
I’m scared. ‘To reopen within a hospital preparing for Italy
