Healthcare in Arzachena does not present the critical issues often described and in any case work is being done to improve the situation.
This is what emerged from the interventions of the regional councilor for Health, Carlo Doria and the general director of the Olbia Local Health Authority, Marcello Acciaro, during the open municipal council held last night, requested by the opposition councillors, Rino Cudoni, Francesca Pileri and Fabio Fresi, which was also attended by parliamentarian Dario Giagoni and regional councilor Roberto Li Gioi.
After the exposure of a series of problems and shortcomings by the president of the municipal council, Mario Russu, concerning, among others, the activities of the clinic, the medical emergency service, general practitioners and paediatricians, in his speech, the The regional councilor first outlined the general picture of healthcare in Sardinia and the difficulties, with related reasons, in finding doctors and specialists particularly to be allocated to locations other than those of Cagliari and Sassari, and then listed a series of numbers according to the such as the health situation in Arzachena would not be particularly difficult. Numbers which, however, did not convince the opposition councilor, Fabio Fresi, while his colleague Cudoni noted "a gap between what politics perceives today and the real world".
And while the mayor Roberto Ragnedda, who is also president of the Socio-Health Conference of the Gallura Local Health Authority, asked to recognize the «specificity of Arzachena», the second town in Gallura and with a growing population, the general director of the Local Health Authority, Marcello Acciaro, who just a few days ago he approved the technical-economic feasibility project of the community house, he asked for some time to carry out a whole series of interventions in Arzachena, making an appointment in a year to see what will be achieved.
In any case, at the end of the long meeting, an agenda regarding local public health services was approved, unanimously by majority and minority, which among other things asks, for Arzachena, the opening of a Hub like the one planned for Tempio and La Maddalena, with medical presence 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (through the modification of the company policies) ; the activation of the Integrated Territorial Areas with the fixed presence of the emergency medical service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; the immediate restoration of the family counseling center, "almost dismantled", where the social worker, psychologist and pediatrician no longer work; the full restoration of vaccinations at the Arzachena clinics; the immediate establishment of the Health House; the activation of an extraordinary pediatrician office of free choice; the application, for specialist hours, of criteria based on the number of inhabitants and the real needs of the population; the replacement of general practitioners with paediatricians of free choice, providing for a systemic alternation that takes into account retirements and any shortages in time; the strengthening of continuity of care services guaranteed by the medical guard with the simultaneous presence of two doctors on duty and the tourist medical guard; the strengthening of holiday dialysis services.
