Covid has made clear the need for more space
Legnano – The Legnano hospital was created deliberately small. According to the directives of Lombardy region, at the beginning of the new millennium the number of beds intended for hospitalization had to be reduced to the bare minimum: thanks to new surgical techniques, those who have hernia surgery in the morning can be sent home in the evening, in an “acute” hospital the turnover in the departments is continuous. For those who are not acutely ill, the project was to create different structures, recovering the spaces in the old hospital in via Candiani or in that of Cuggiono. The project was only partially implemented, from reform to reform the “health citadel” that was imagined in via Candiani in 2004 has become the “community house” that is only starting to take shape today. In the meantime, however, there was Covid.
The pandemic has shown all the limits of the “acute” strategy, those who need care and cannot be discharged must be hosted somewhere. In the most difficult months of 2020, in many hospitals, doctors were instead forced to choose between who could be treated and who instead had to be sent home and left to fend for themselves. In intention, the 36 additional seats created thanks to the fourth floor of Area A they should be largely allocated to the Day Hospital, allowing the same number of beds to be freed up in the wards. It won’t be enough to solve all the problems of a hospital that remains overcrowded even without a pandemic, but it’s already something.
Luigi Crespi
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