Inside an Italian hospital overwhelmed by COVID

Meanwhile in Naples, a COVID patient dies in the ER bathroom, others are given oxygen in their cars... this is what COVID is doing to hospitals.

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00:00This is the deceased. This is the Cardarelli Hospital.

00:07Ready to help.

00:09Here he is.

00:12This one here.

00:14We don't know if he's dead or alive.

00:31When I posted that video, I moved, I lifted a lid,

00:36I really lifted a lid,

00:38which is now making reflections, not only to the citizens,

00:41but it is doing what I hope is the best for the national government.

00:45If I hadn't posted this video,

00:49the management, but certainly the management of Cardarelli

00:53would have notified the family with a simple phone call,

00:56saying that the father, let's say the relative, was deceased,

01:00without explaining how he died,

01:03and above all in what conditions he died in the bathroom.

01:21This is the reality we have in front of us.

01:23We have hospital structures in the countryside, collapsed.

01:47At this moment, an emergency in an emergency,

01:50which are the images that are coming from the countryside,

01:53from the hospitals in the countryside.

01:55Images that at this moment can only upset us,

02:00and that upset me.

02:02These are terrible images, the ones we are seeing.

02:05We have a difficult situation in the entire south center.

02:09Particular regions such as Calabria, the countryside, Sicily,

02:13are in great difficulty.

02:15They were in difficulty even before Covid.

02:18They were in difficulty because cuts were made to health care for years.

02:22Hospital structures were massacred.

02:25A series of emergency rooms were deactivated.

02:28And this was added to the terrible pandemic we are experiencing.

02:32Unfortunately, the operators are sub-organic in this territory.

02:36In the period of commissioning, that is, in the last ten years,

02:39we have lost more than 16,000 units of health workers.

02:43So they try to respond with the means they have.

02:49This film is dedicated to all the people who have lost their lives

02:53because of Covid-19.

02:55This film is dedicated to all the people who have lost their lives

02:59because of Covid-19.