Earthquake, evacuation orders for the hospital in Amandola : “Unfit for use” – Corriere della Sera

The hospital of Amandola has been declared unfit for use for structural problems and has been completely evacuated. More tests carried out yesterday by engineers of the University of Pavia have encountered injuries and problems, and classified the whole of the structure such as “And”.

The damages suffered by the hospital after the earthquake of August 24 (Firm news)

Amandola has been strongly affected, first by the earthquake of August 24 and then by 30 October: schools have been closed since last Saturday and until today, and also the patients of the hospital had already been transferred to the hospital of Fermo, after the partial collapse of one wing of the building. The evacuation procedures relate to the activities and remained active since then, i.e. surgeries, the first surgery, all the medical machinery, the dialysis department, including the medical and paramedical personnel still in service. Before the shock of Sunday were proceeding at a pace that forced the jobs to make new agile departments of medicine and surgery, that they had to be ready for mid-November, with the reopening to the patients. Reopening but it has been quashed, at least for now. The civil Protection is to know that within a few days it will be mounted to a structure to allocate to an emergency room and the hospital ambulance, while the Civil Protection are coming in 4 modules to set up the clinics, diagnostics, laboratory analysis and x-ray plus ultrasound. In a third moment, it will include other modules for facility hemodialysis, that Conclusion follows 16 patients, and to set up a laboratory ct scans and magnetic resonance imaging.

earthquake swarm

And in the meantime continue the seismic swarm that is flailing in the Centre of Italy. Are 23.300 shock registered by August 24 by the National Seismic Network of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Ingv). Of these, over 3,300 have occurred from the 30th of October. At 11.00 am today, 5 November, the earthquakes of magnitude between 3 and 4 were about 663, 41, of magnitude between 4 and 5 and 5 and those of a magnitude greater than or equal to 5, according to the reports of the Ingv. Only from midnight today, the shock so far recorded a magnitude of more than 2 between the regions of Marche, Lazio and Umbria have been 101. According to the surveys of the Ingv, the strongest was a magnitude of 3.6 of 9.17 with the epicenter near Accumoli and Cittareale.

The promises of the government

But the minister Dario Franceschini launches a signal of encouragement to the affected population: “The reconstruction of the centre of Italy hit by the earthquake to know the same redemption that had Pompeii”. And adds the minister of the Environment Gian Luca Galletti: “The Government there has been from the first moment, there is today and there will be up to the reconstruction of these villages, this is the goal”.

November 5, 2016 (change the 5 November 2016 | 15:18)

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