Italian hospitals, from north to south, are the undisputed protagonists in the fight against Covid-19. Healthcare professionals are applying their skills and knowledge to the fullest. They are putting their empathy and humanity on the line to help Coronavirus patients heal and get out of this nightmare as soon as possible. Each of them is struggling and putting their lives at risk to save as many human lives as possible.
Unfortunately, many doctors and nurses have fallen in this war. And our thoughts go to them. But in this unparalleled historical moment there are also some excellences that stand out, that stand out for a discovery, for a way of doing that proves to be effective. Or, simply, for the modus operandi adopted. And this is the case of the Cotugno Hospital in Naples, which received applause from the foreign press.
Sky News applauds the Cotugno in Naples
Yesterday the report by an English journalist on Sky News Uk praising the Cotugno di Napoli as the only Italian hospital that does not register infections between staff. It may be because he has had more time to prepare for the emergency, that he has more technological tools and devices at his disposal or that he follows the protocol to the letter. It may be that he is used to treating infectious diseases, or that he pays painstaking attention to detail. Anyway, fortunately, up to now there has been no positive case among the professionals. The British reporter describes his entry into the hospital through a device dedicated to disinfection. And immediately the surveillance guards in each corridor attracted his attention, which the next moment moved to the gas-like masks and then again to the airtight suits worn by doctors and nurses.
In the Cotugno of Naples, transformed into a Covid hospital, there is extreme respect for the rules. From the separation between infected and non-infected material, to the division between one corridor and another. Up to the separation between medical staff in close contact with patients and "second line" staff. Although fully protected, doctors and nurses change overalls, masks and glasses as soon as they leave a room where people with Coronavirus. Whether they are in intensive or sub-intensive care.
Thanks from the mayor Luigi de Magistris
In response to the Sky News Uk report, the mayor's words of gratitude arrive de Magistris. If it says “Happy and proud to learn that even abroad they know and appreciate the value of our talented and very courageous doctors and nurses from Cotugno. A model hospital, the most advanced in Southern Italy ". And he never misses an opportunity to express his thanks, which includes the thanks of all Neapolitan citizens, for the exhausting work of the hospital staff.
Studies on Tocilizumab
Furthermore, the Cotugno hospital immediately supported the other Neapolitan hospital center, Pascale, in the experimentation of Tocilizumab, obtaining from AIFA the possibility of studying the application of the drug in the fight against Covid-19. The drug that treats rheumatoid arthritis has been found to have good results in patients with coronavirus pneumonia. To confirm the positive effects of the drug, also Anhui Provincial Hospital and Anhui Fuyang. In fact, 19 patients were discharged from the two Chinese hospitals after two weeks of treatment with Tocilizumab.
