Consequences of COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: Medical Responsibilities and Governmental Measures.
Front Public Health
; 8: 588852, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1000211
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world causing more victims than the latest global epidemics such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2012. Italy has been one of the most affected countries, and it had to deal with an already weak economic condition and cuts to public health services due to budgetary requirements from the last decade-something that made the situation even more dramatic. Deaths have exceeded 600.000 worldwide. During the emergency, regulatory measures were taken to counter the situation. This study highlights the main anti-COVID-19 government measures to support doctors and healthcare professionals, and it analyzes how to respond to the many requests complaining about neglectful healthcare professionals during the spread of the infection. For all those healthcare workers who died on duty, a compensation plan is assumed through a solidarity fund. The same solution cannot be granted to all patients, given the difficulty in assessing the responsibility of the doctor not only during an emergency but with insufficient instruments to cope with it as well.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Politics
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Public Health
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Health Personnel
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Financing, Government
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Public Health
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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Fpubh.2020.588852
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