Towards the farewell of the masks also in the hospital and RSA

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Goodbye to masks in hospitals and nursing homes

This would be the orientation on new anti-covid rules in the hospital and in the RSA starting May 1st. AND emerged from the meeting at the Ministry of Health to outline, in view of the April 30 deadline, the obligation to wear masks in hospitals and nursing homes for the elderly.

And so shortly, if things go as they seem, the instrument that has become the symbol of the pandemic will be bid farewellnow left only and exclusively in health facilities.

For masks and tampons, the rules in hospitals and RSA have changed since May (Getty)

Protection yes…

The direction seems to have already been taken, even if the experts are divided. The director of Infectious diseases clinic of San Martino in Genoa, Matthew Bassetti, for example, believes that has arrived time to abandon the dimension of obligationbecause “it makes no sense because Sars-Cov-2 is no more serious today than other respiratory viruses,” he explained.

Adding, however, that of course it will continue «to use the mask in the hospital if I have to enter the room of an immunosuppressed person or if in contact with a potentially infected person, as I did even before the obligation to wear masks introduced in 2020 to curb the spread of Sars-Cov-2. And I will also ask those who work with me and the family members who intend to visit these patients to do so».

And no masks

Opposite opinion instead for the President of the Gimbe Nino Cartabellotta Foundationaccording to which the obligation to wear a mask in hospitals and healthcare environments should be maintained.

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For Cartabellotta «nosocomial infections do not concern only Covid. Hospitals tend to select bacteria of a certain type that are also resistant to antibiotics” and therefore “everyone should be treated with the maximum security available, such as masks». It does not seem that the Government is going in this direction.

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