Covid, stop the Green pass to access hospitals and health facilities

Stop the Green pass to access hospitals and health facilities in Sardinia.

The Region adapts to the latest indications from Rome , updating the provisions on access to health and social-health facilities , the guidelines on the management of hospitalizations of people positive for Covid-19 and the planning of dedicated beds in the hospitals of the Island.

From today , an antigen or molecular test will no longer be mandatory to access the emergency rooms, which may still be required depending on the circumstances.

On the other hand, the test always remains mandatory for patients who need hospitalization (planned or requested following access to the emergency room): in the event of a positive swab but without symptoms, hospitalization "can take place in respiratory isolation in the department dedicated to treatment of the prevalent pathology for which assistance was requested from the hospital". In the event that "the positive patients in isolation in the ward exceed 25% of the occupancy rate of the same ward, the transfer will be arranged to multidisciplinary wards dedicated to the isolation of asymptomatic positives or, in the absence of such hospital spaces, to beds of the Covid departments recognized in the regional network".

As for visitors, access to people without symptoms attributable to Covid and who have not had close contacts at risk is allowed in the hospital wards. The obligation remains to wear the Ffp2 protective mask, to sanitize your hands and to measure the temperature at the entrance to the facility .

«The health departments - specifies the Region - will in any case have the right, depending on the specific situations, to modulate and program the access of visitors, it being understood that in the hospitalization wards and in the Emergency Department the access of a companion or the caregiver in the presence of minors, disabled, elderly patients (over eighty years old) or pregnant women".

The rules for access to outpatient facilities in the area and to social-health facilities have also been updated.

«Today - declares the regional health councilor, Carlo Doria - the paramount need is to maintain and implement the full assistance capacity of our hospitals for all pathologies in any circumstance. The guidelines that we have approved go exactly in this direction: to continue to ensure all-round treatment and assistance also for patients positive for Covid, while guaranteeing, at the same time, safety against the risk of spreading the infection through the identification of dedicated isolation rooms in wards or dedicated multidisciplinary wards. After so many sacrifices, we do not intend to let our guard down, also due to the risks represented by the new variants, but it is more necessary than ever to define an optimal organization that guarantees the efficiency of the entire health system".

(Unioneonline/D)