Abandoned to die alone at home — how virus claims scores in Italy as doctors shun home visits
Lack of primary health care is proving just as costly because medics cannot or will not make home visits, doctors say
06 April 2020 - 11:05
Milan — It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father, Alessandro, who was gripped by fever and struggling for breath.
When an on-call physician did go to her house near Bergamo, at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, on the evening of March 18, it was too late...
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