"The situation in her hospitals Italy it must be like in war. "Doctors and nurses will choose who will live and who will die.… Courage, what else to say?", We read in the comment of an Italian reader and he describes the truth. This is also reflected in the images that have seen the light of day.
The daily announcement of the civil protection in the neighboring country about the number of people who lost their lives every 24 hours and those who were affected by the coronavirus, the news that in the hospitals of Lombardy there is no more room for other patients, the news that corpses are transported to neighboring cities because in Bergamo, for example, they no longer know what to do with the dead, all this actually refers to conditions of war.
And in a war, the "common mortals" will be lost, and the "heroes" will be lost. If these two can be combined in everyone's life, even better. One such case was Roberto Stella (star, in Italian), the doctor who really belonged to everyone and who στο fell on duty a few days ago.
The news of his death, in a hospital in Como on March 11, having been infected with the coronavirus, plunged into grief the Italians who did not know him personally and shocked those who knew him, those who were next to him every day or had worked with him in the past.
"I want to express my grief over the death of Roberto Stella, a doctor and a reference point for Italian health care. Medicine is paying a high price for its epidemic Covid-19", Were the words of the Italian Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, about a man who never saw his job as a profession and maybe that is why he was an excellent professional.
He graduated from the University of Milan in 1978, specialized in hematology in Padua and ended up being the head of the medical association in Varese, a city where he lived for decades, responsible for the strategy of Pharmacopoeia and a member of the National Committee for Medical Education. Above all, however, he was human.
"His death is a huge loss for medicine as a whole and not only. "Roberto Stella represented the ability, interest and sacrifice of family doctors, he was by everyone's side.", said Sylvester Scotti, head of the Italian National Federation of Physicians and General Therapists speaking to CNN.
The news of Dottore's death got to that point, because everyone knew him, even if he did not seek it. In the statements of people who knew him, these days after his death, the common denominator is the following: Stella shouted where he should, he did not shout so that the others could hear him, except those who should.
He tried to raise the level of medicine through a series of examinations that he wanted to establish for his new colleagues, he organized many humanitarian initiatives in Italy, he tried to maintain over the years the human face of the doctor towards patients from any part of the country, so and by any economic group.
His death came as a shock to the Italian medical community both because he was 67 years old, below the average age of coronavirus victims in the neighboring country, and because he had no pathological problems that could burden his body. Perhaps, therefore, even with his death he "helped" his colleagues or his industry to improve working conditions, as the Italian newspapers wrote.
"His death represents the cry of all his colleagues, who even today are not properly equipped for their personal protection," added Sylvester Scotty, bringing to the fore the issue of the danger to which doctors and nurses are all exposed. space to save human lives, risking their own.
That is what Roberto Stella did, who continued to personally supervise the care of the patients even when there were no protective masks, while his last words, before he collapsed, are said to be the following: "We no longer have masks but we do not stop. We are careful and we continue. We are here to work and fight "…