Another operating room was closed to the Papardo hospital through the presence of bacteriawith values deemed “unacceptable”. It is room n. 8 to surgery, and in this case the blocking of operations was not ordered by the judiciary but directly by the health director of the hospital, Paolo Cardia.
After the opening of the investigation into the suspected deaths of cardiac surgery, which is still in progress and in the past months he had led to the closure of two operating rooms, reactivated only recently, an evidently ongoing carpet monitoring of all the structures is evidently underway. And the first result of these checks realizes the activity of the “Gregea” company. The health director Paolo Cardia writes in a note sent to the other administrative leaders of the Papardo and to the medical managers, which “… having been detected a number of colonies> 5 UFC plate; Considering the values unacceptable, the immediate interdiction of the operating room 8 of the surgical activity is arranged ».
Meanwhile, The Papardo General Management clarifies that the closure of the operating room falls within the scope of normal checks and daily monitoring actions carried out to protect patients and medical and paramedical staff. The operating room will be reopened, once the sanitization is completed. No alarm, no “external” measure but constant attention on the conditions of the environments in which doctors and health are operated.
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