Usually when a person is hospitalized, as soon as he or she recovers, he or she is discharged. This happens after the doctor who is treating him or her signs a special form. In the case of a ten-year-old boy hospitalized at Brotzu, it seems that no one wants to sign this form. "We have been held hostage in the hospital for two days," denounces the father who yesterday filed a complaint with the Carabinieri of Su Planu .
The story, according to the boy's parent, went like this: " In August the child had been operated on at Brotzu for a cardiac arrhythmia and after a few days he was discharged ," he reports. "This Tuesday he had a small arrhythmia again and was taken to the emergency room at San Michele, where he was kept under observation for a few hours before being admitted to the cardiology department . Not the pediatric one, which has no beds, but the adult one, which in any case uses the advice of colleagues from the pediatric cardiology clinic for treatment. When the time comes for the child to be discharged," adds the man, " the cardiology doctors do not sign the paper because they maintain that the pediatric cardiology colleagues should sign it, who, despite having given a favorable opinion for the child to return home, do not give the green light because they maintain that it should be the person who admitted him . The alternative," the parent points out, "was for me to sign the discharge and take responsibility. At this point I contacted the health management, then I went to the nearest police station to file a complaint ."
Brotzu's general manager, Agnese Foddis, replies. "It's an organizational problem that the company is finding a solution to," she explains. "It's clear that the ones signing the resignations should be the cardiologists who have expertise in children, not those who deal with adults, who don't have the same expertise . And after all, it's been done this way for 35 years. In any case, all of this happens due to excessive zeal , because for us the priority is patient protection."
