Major works at Arnas Brotzu, the two hospitals that are part of it become construction sites, and no official and/or written communication has been made to the unions and the thousands of health workers who every day have to guarantee care to patients arriving there from all over Sardinia.

The news is that the Emergency Room will also be renovated , in compliance with the anti-Covid provisions of 2020. It will start in December and, on paper, will end in a year and a half. In short, at a time when the burning issue of the Businco operating rooms that must close and the transfer of the departments and surgical interventions to San Michele is at stake, when work will soon begin in Digestive Endoscopy and Hemodynamics, when - says a nurse - the bodies leave the maintenance service because there is another construction site in the mortuary's appurtenances, while the situation is explosive and never before has there been such strong and widespread discontent among all employees, here is another "case" that will contribute to increasing tension, also because this operation at the Emergency Room - which has over 130 daily visits - is a "structural, plant and technological adaptation to the anti-contagion provisions", that is, it takes off with a four-year delay, with the pandemic having thank God been archived for a while.

The green light

"The works will begin in early December and will last 18 months - the Company informs - the amount (PNRR funds) is 5 million 800 thousand euros. They consist of the renovation of areas related to the Emergency Department of San Michele: Obi, Digestive Endoscopy, plasmapheresis, rooms of the old Emergency Room. For now - they specify - no moves or transfers are planned".

The go-ahead was given with two resolutions on October 31st signed by the general director Agnese Foddis and the health director Raimondo Pinna and comes after a very long bureaucratic process that starts from a regulation of the Region of July 2020 that defines a plan for the reorganization of the hospital network and the restructuring of the Emergency Room with the identification of separate areas of stay for suspected Covid-19 or potentially contagious patients, separation of routes, etc.