The construction of the new hospital in Sassari can wait, the regional health councilor Carlo Doria, who attended the meeting of the city council, clearly stated that the new structure is not one of the priorities of the region.
"We are taking Sardinian healthcare from the second to the third millennium," Doria said.
As for the new hospital, announced a few years ago by Governor Solinas, he explained: «I have the resolution for the new hospitals on my desk but I haven't signed it because I have to deal with the sick, not with construction. Sassari is one of the most serious cases because it needs a new structure. Maternal and child care living in a degraded environment and the creation of a hospice for the terminally ill are also a priority, but first we must give doctors to the patients". It is not an indefinite postponement. «We will decide together where the new hospital will be built. Not today, but a tomorrow that is not too far ahead».
The priority is therefore to find doctors, to this end Doria said that «the number that has always been programmed for access to medical faculties is not enough: 260 registered in Cagliari and 140 in Sassari are lower than the number of doctors who retire. There is an agreement to increase the number of seats by a third».
