(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Italy's hospitals are close to
breaking point because of the number of COVID-19 patients they
are facing, the nation's internal medicine doctors, internal
medicine nurses and geriatricians said in an open letter on
Wednesday.
"The hospitals are close to collapse because of the shortage of
personnel and the lack of beds in the face of an abnormal flow
of patients because of the rapid and vertiginous spread of COVID
infection," read the letter.
"Messages that downplay the situation should not be given... the
situation in the hospitals is dramatic".
The federation of Italian medical guilds recently called for a
nationwide lockdown amid a sharp upswing in COVID-19 cases.
(ANSA).
COVID: hospitals close to collapse - doctors, nurses
Situation is dramatic say internal medicine health workers