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The appeal of doctors. “It cannot be accepted that our doctors are facing the Covid-19 emergency without the personal protective equipment from the virus.” The president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo) Filippo Anelli writes in a letter to the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana. “A doctor who falls ill - he adds - is a doctor removed from the national health service and the protection of the right to health”.

The hospitals in Lombardy facing the coronavirus emergency are “on the edge of the estate”, meanwhile says Professor Massimo Galli, infectious disease specialist at the Sacco hospital in Milan, during a press conference at the Lombardy Region headquarters. “Most of the beds in the intensive care units are occupied by this disease - he adds - some hospitals are in serious crisis, such as Lodi and Cremona, where we are experiencing an overload of patients”.
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