Stretchers strewn on Turin hospital staircase amid crisis
Health chief says under control but nurses say intolerable
01 Aprile 2021
TURIN, APR 1 - Patients in stretchers were piled up
on a staircase in a Turin hospital this week as nurses
complained they were on the verge of collapse amid a
COVID-induced crisis at the hospital.
Pictures of the stretchers at the Maria Vittoria Hospital went
viral.
It was just the latest case of overcrowding in Piedmont
hospitals including those at Chivasso and Rivoli.
Piedmont Governor Alberto Cirio went to the hospital to assess
the situation for himself.
Regional health pointman Luigi Genesio Icardi said the