They are the short intensive observation (OBI) and urgent medicine to have to give vent to the emergency room of the jazzolino, welcoming the patients waiting for hospitalization in the various departments, to collapse due to lack of beds. And it is precisely on a bed of the Obi that a 95-year-old died yesterday morning, who arrived in the emergency room on Monday and since then waiting for hospitalization.
The woman, in very serious conditions for the tumor pathology from which she was affected and for other situations related to advanced age, had been fixed in the Obi temporarily, waiting for a bed to get rid of the competent department. In the OBI he received scrupulous care and assistance from the doctors and health personnel, which is why the death is not linked to the problems of hospitalization (as explained by the doctors, the situation did not hinder the therapies: the death would also have occurred in the ward). But one wonders if it is acceptable that a seriously suffering patient should wait for a bed for days.
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