European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March a 1969 the stars and stripes Page 9 24-hour clinic sought near Naples Navy wife writes petition by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Naples. Italy three fourths of people eligible for medical treatment by the Navy in the greater Naples area live in or near the Pinch Marc housing area. But heir 24-hour emergency room is at the Hospital in Agnata. A difficult g. Mile drive that can mean hours in traffic. That s one reason Why almost 300 people have signed a petition calling for after hours emergency service Al the Pinch Marc medical clinic. Only seven or eight people refused to sign it said Sherry drown a Navy wife who wrote the petition after facing diff. Cully Soulag tit daughter Irra cd on a Holiday. Most of them were fed up with inc Issue. They d tried to keep the clinic open extra hours in inc past and had been turned brawn Lias gone door to door in inc Pinch Marc area and nearby Lago pal Ria outside Naples and has spent a saturday from of the Navy Exchange at inc naval support activity the petition aits that an ambulance and a medic he on duty Al the clinic 24 hours a Day. The facility now closes on holidays and weekends and shuts its doors weekdays at 4 . Making Mai lers worse the drive to the Navy Hospital cart beat Short As 20 mirth Jessor As Long As three hours depending on the traffic. Navy Hospital officials say there Sim ply Aren t enough medical people to keep. The clinic open around the clock. And an ambulance had been kept on duly after hours in the past hut was t used enough of justify staffing it. The idea for the petition began last fall when Brown,.who lives in inc Tarine needed off hour medical care for her daughter Laura. It was the sunday before labor Day and Laura had been scalded on her Knees and a fool Brown wanted to take the child then a year old to the clinic but it was closed. Although inc Navy Hospital outside Naples was 18 Miles away Brown s husband was on duty he had their Only car and the family had no phone she treated Laura at Home the next Day i Abor Day Brown was still without a car and the injury did not appear to be gelling better so she went 10 the ,c1inic.\a1lhough it was closed for the Holiday a medic was banding an administrative watch. The Petty officer said Laura s Burns should i ave been ire aled the night before but refused to Call an ambulance or even allow Brown to use inc clinic Telephone. A neighbor agreed to take Broun o the doctor examined Laura s bums and scolded Brown for not bringing the child in sooner. I Felt guilty enough Brown said. If the clinic had been open that Day or the night before there d have been no ques Tion that i would have taken her. But i had no car no and Brown has heard Many similar tales. Every person who signed the Peti Tion had a horror story.". One of the horror stories is the Dis Tance to the 24-hour care in Naples. Between Fie Highway exit at Agnano and the Hospital is an extremely congested area dubbed squeeze Alley by americans. When the squeeze is Clear the trip from Pinch Marc can take As few As 20 minutes. But when it s congested merely navigating the squeeze can Lake 10 minutes or More. Traffic usually is heavy in the squeeze until at least 5 30 . On weekdays. On weekends when horse races arc being held it the nearby hippodrome or when 90,000 soccer fans Are flocking to a match Al the Naples stadium the traffic can he a Nightmare. And in summer when neapolitan flee to the beaches near Pinet Marc it can take hours to reach Naples. Navy officials arc familiar with he rail for expanded clinic hours at Pinata Mare but solving the problem is difficult in an already tight staffing situation. It s not a new Issue said capt. Wil Liam e. Clayton inc Hospital commander. It came up Long before i was Here and once since i be to provide even rudimentary Levels of 24-hour care clinic would involve corpsman nurses and doctors essentially running two emergency rooms one at Agnano and the other Al Pinci Amare but the doctors who work at Pineta Marc during the Day already stand All night emergency room duty three or four limes a month along with inc Hospital s internists and general surgeons . And the Hospital currently has so few staff doctors they often can t Lake the Day of Tefler they have worked All night. Internists and surgeons also Are on Call for 15 nights each month meaning they already Are of Call or on duty More than so percent of the month . Giving those doctors even More watches would take away the Hospital s room to wiggle he said. And it wiil become More difficult i d staff the Hospital s ambulance Clayto said As a new Navy regulation soon will require two trained emergency medical technicians Raj tar Ihan one plus inc Spe. Scially trained Driver. Sis of Sherry Brown collects signatures outside the Natal exch nut in Naples Italy still the Hospital has managed to keep the. Pin Tamare. Clinic staffed at higher Levels than doctors and six corpsman Origi Nally Awro assigned to inc clinic with the idea being to Lake Core of minor acute illnesses . But an earthquake in 90 forced the Navy hos Pitallo vacate its fourth and fifth floors. In order to keep its primary or routine care staff in one place those doctors Nurs. Is and corpsman moved to Pinch Marc the clinic now hav three family proc lice doctors a paediatrician on duly pan time a podiatric nurse practitioner,.a physician s assistant eight corps Nen and an administrative nurse. And while the official the clinic has t changed inc Hospital pro Vidics the additional staffing out of hide , and he has no More hide to give. Brown presented her petition to area of Ficiak also i tans to Send into members of Congress. Tia Cher asks curb on Ozone of fac eng chemical London at1 prime minister Margaret Thatcher said tuesday that All countries including poor to Jird world nations must curb Ozone destroy ing chemicals that she said threaten life on Earth. Simply to carry on As we Are is not an option said Thatcher at the end of a 120-nation Confer Cnoc on phasing out the use of chemical compounds arc used in aerosol products refrigerators and air conditioners. Her speech came after Prince Charles on monday called for a ban of the synthetic chemicals by con Lury s end. The meeting began sunday and 20 countries have since joined Lluc 31 that signed the 1987 Montreal protocol requiring that production of the chemical compounds be Cut in half by the turn of the cd Iury. Thatcher acknowledged that action on the com pounds was Likely to begin in Industrial nations. However the added it is not a Case of some countries asking other countries to act. It is a Case of every country taking action. She said the world s people must change their customs and habits in what they buy they. Do ,1 in order to overcome one of the greatest Hal Lenges in life on -.--. The compounds arc stable and non toxic when. Released into the atmosphere,1 but when they Rise. 15 25 Miles to the stratosphere 10 to 100 years later they break apart and their chlorine atoms destroy the. Ozone shield that protects Earth from the Sun s can cer causing ultraviolet rays the compounds also trap heat and warm global temperatures causing potentially major climate changes in a process known As the greenhouse effect. In other remarks tuesday . Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly Lold report ers "1 arc All in this Loather. We Are All going to have to find ways to collaborate and Clear this mess up. It affects delegates from China aril India of monday urged the Industrial nations to create a fund to help devel Oping nation replace inc compounds with Safe substitutes " -.-. Vladimir Vakaro a had Bride soviet delegation. Told the conference monday thai his country needs More scientific evidence that. Chi s destroy the. Ozone layer before it will agree to Speed up its phase. -. If we take a decision which is not Well Jirou Nitchi. We can interfere and destroy the. Economics of. Inc. Developing countries he said uni cd slates and the 12-nation. Europea n Community have said they will press for a total ban. On the compounds by the end of the Century Prince Charles , there is surely in. Overwhelming scientific Case to change the Mon Treal treaty from a reduction to -. to the Drilich throne who banned Aero sols with the compounds from his households last year urged products con _ . ,. "
