Grasselli coordinates all the state-run intensive care units across Lombardy. It was overcrowded with COVID-19 patients and hospital staff had worked 21 days without a break. Now, nearly all operating rooms in the Lombardy region have been converted into intensive care units, said Grasselli, the intensive-care coordinator. According to Grasselli, the ratio of nurses to patients in the region's intensive care units is normally one to two. Some patients who are not at the point of needing intensive care feel imprisoned in overrun wards.

Source: bd News24 March 17, 2020 03:11 UTC