Italian hospitals no longer try to save old people - nurse
In Italy, gripped by the coronavirus epidemic, doctors have to choose which patients to connect and which not to ventilators, of which there are not enough for everyone.
Anna Makarenko, who works as a nurse in a hospital in the city of Lecco in northern Italy, spoke about this in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets.
“Unfortunately, now we are forced to choose who to resuscitate and who not. There are not enough ventilators for everyone, so we make a choice in favor of a younger patient. Currently, it is mainly 50-year-olds who are in intensive care. 80-year-olds are dying,” the doctor said.
“You can’t get sick now. I work in the surgical department - it, like five other departments, was given over to the coronavirus. A woman was recently brought to us with symptoms of the virus, but she was also diagnosed with respiratory failure and diabetes. Tests for coronavirus showed a negative result. We were happy and thought about transferring her to therapy. While they were waiting for the second result, she suffered a severe stroke. And I couldn’t even approach her, adjust the pillow, talk to her. The woman died without saying goodbye to anyone,” Makarenko shared the details.
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