«The Marino hospital, facing the sea, no longer for the sick, but for the administrative staff. The change of use, from healthcare to another, has been hovering in the regional political world for about ten years. Nobody wanted to save the prestigious hospital serving the whole of Sardinia, with its excellences such as hand surgery and the hyperbaric chamber ." This was reported in a press release by Claudia Zuncheddu, doctor, spokesperson for the Sardinian Network - Public Health Defense.
« The state of abandonment of the hospital, without any ordinary maintenance, had long been a harbinger of closure . A dismantling also facilitated by the blocking of turnover and reduction of healthcare personnel. The pandemic then was manna from heaven. The Marino", underlines Claudia Zuncheddu, "becomes in effect the second Covid hospital for Cagliari and southern Sardinia. The orthopedic clinic moved to the University Hospital and the trauma patients moved partly to the Brotzu and partly to the Polyclinic. Hospital facilities in turn at risk of implosion due to overloading of services and lack of staff ."
" The hyperbaric chamber that covered urgent emergencies throughout Sardinia 24 hours a day, with excellent professionals from Orthopedics to Emergency Surgery, is now an abandoned island in the healthcare desert ", reports the spokesperson of the Sardinian Network - Defense of Public Health. "The impact on patients is very serious throughout the island."
«After the dismantling, the mystery surrounding the recent renovation works on the Marino is soon revealed. The recent inauguration of the Pain Therapy Centre, transferred from Binaghi to the new emergency room in Marino, appears to be a health cover for other uses of the hospital. We would not want", adds Claudia Zuncheddu, "for the financial resources provided for by the PNRR for health to be used in the renovation of hospitals that were knowingly dismantled, not to be returned to the sick. The three floors of the orthopedics and hand surgery of the Marino hospital, finely renovated with a view of the sea, do not house patients and healthcare personnel, but the administrators, from the General Director to his staff. This is how hospitals don't close but are transformed. An anomaly to be checked ."
