Positive balance sheet for Arnas Brotzu , which closes 2023 with 33 thousand patients hospitalized and discharged in the two Cagliari hospitals San Michele and Businco. The data, provided by the Arnas health activities control service, directed by Anna Maria Corriga, although provisional, are indicators of the importance of the company for the entire regional health system. The data becomes more significant if we consider that 10,145 hospitalizations in the entire Arnas , ordinary and daytime, equal to 31%, came from other regional and extra-regional health authorities .

Businco , with a total of 8,145 patients discharged in the past year, confirms its role as a regional reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of oncological pathologies , and the figure of 35% of patients outside Cagliari confirms this. San Michele , 24,860 patients discharged with a figure equal to 29% outside Cagliari, is the regional reference center for transplants , which closed 2023 with important numbers . This was confirmed by the director of the local Donations and Transplant Coordination, Antonio Manti : 76 transplants, of which 7 hearts, 30 kidneys and 35 livers as well as two combined (liver-kidney), for a total of seventy-four transplant recipients and 31 donors. To which are added 34 corneal and 74 marrow transplants (adults). Finally, the access data to the adult and pediatric emergency rooms should not be forgotten: 41,935 for the first and 20,943 for the second, for a total of 62,878.

In the year just ended in the Businco Oncological Radiotherapy department, directed by Raffaele Barbara, there was the precious renewal of the technological equipment which will allow us to increase effectiveness and reduce side effects in order to improve survival and the quality of life of cancer patients , for the benefit of the entire island territory. «An investment that will allow us to reduce waiting lists and extra-region mobility of cancer patients», comments the director of Anrnas Agnese Foddis. The (LINEar ACcelerator) was in November, a cutting- . The revolution will also continue throughout 2024: the new accelerator will not operate alone, . In February Businco Radiotherapy will also be able to make use of the contribution of Helical Tomotherapy, which will allow the treatment of all types of tumors and will allow all the most modern Radiotherapy treatments to be carried out, .