The Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, after more than four months, is Covid-free. The intensive care of the hospital in the Lombard town no longer has patients infected with Coronavirus. Finally, the ward is empty after 137 days from the first hospitalization which took place on 23 February last. Some patients affected by the virus, but now negativized, remain hospitalized by Pope John XXIII.
The hospital most affected by the pandemic is covid-free
The Covid-free intensive care for Pope John XXIII was symbolically celebrated by the hospital managers. To exult the general manager Maria Beatrice Stasi, with the medical director Fabio Pezzoli and the director of the Emergency-urgency and critical area department Luca Lorini. A representative of intensive care operators was also celebrating. Bergamo was undoubtedly the city most affected bypandemic emergency erupted between the end of February and the beginning of last March.
Thousands of people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic have died in the Bergamo hospitals. Just to pay homage to the Bergamo victims of the Coronavirus, the doctors of Pope John XIII observed a pause of silence. Then there was a thunderous and liberating applause addressed to the approximately 400 operators who work in the intensive care units of the hospital.
Hope after the pain
In the most critical days of the spread of the infection, the Bergamo hospital has come to host over one hundred intubated patients. "Being here in resuscitation with collaborators is a moment of great emotion" said Maria Beatrice Stasi who contracted the virus in a mild form. The general manager of the hospital reiterated that, once the emergency was over, “the reanimation departmentand returns to devote himself to all the different pathologies but, by now, without Covid patients.
We hope - the general manager hoped - that this is a downward phase and that the great nightmare we found ourselves working with in the months of March and April will never return.And". The director of the Lorini department said with satisfaction: “Doctors, nurses, technicians. We all joined together to fight this terrible enemy and today the victory has come ”.
