The addition of MSF personnel at Codogno hospital will make around 20 existing beds that had gone unused due to a lack of staff available again. The MSF team will work alongside doctors and nurses from the hospital's other departments to care for COVID-19 patients.
“We’ve met doctors and nurses in Lodi province who have been working tirelessly for weeks in an extraordinary situation,” said Dr. Claudia Lodesani, an infectious disease specialist and president of MSF Italy, who is coordinating MSF’s COVID-19 response in the country. “We are providing support to help with the huge needs and workload of local hospital staff in responding to this pandemic, to help care for patients.”