Tyrrhenian Cosentino, Healthcare prepares the summer emergency: few doctors and many tourists on vacation

John

By John

The health situation of the Tyrrhenian Cosentino in view of the summer appears once again critical, in particular as regards the medical personnel, which remains insufficient especially in emergency-urgency services. The shortage of white cups is a structural and chronic problem that risks exploding further with the arrival of the summer seasonwhen the population along the coast increases considerably for i large tourist rinses. Small countries that burst out because of those appearances that come to quadruplicated compared to the winter. And so in particular the emergency rooms are taken of assault. The 118 ambulances can happen that they are without a doctor on board. And in all this it does not help the fact that emergencies and requests for intervention from May to September are constantly increasing.
The coastal territory is served by three hospitals about 90 kilometers of coast long: Paola, Cetraro and Praia a Mare. In theory, a sufficient network, but in practice the system struggles to hold up.
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