After the Crenos report presented yesterday, in which Sardinia's position emerged as a region in which 18 percent of residents give up treatment , the regional health councilor Carlo Doria intervenes: «2021 was not just any year for the health of the island, just as 2020 was not and this applies to the entire national health system and in general to the entire planet. Perhaps someone will have forgotten it, but in 2021 we were still living in a state of emergency in which the trend of the epidemiological curve not only affected our personal freedom, following the virus containment measures, with the colors of the Regions and the consequent lockdowns , but also the whole machine of care and assistance dramatically focused on Covid-19 ». « The pandemic - continues the exponent of the Giunta Solinas - has completely turned our health system upside down : we have had entire hospital wards if not, in some cases, entire hospitals reorganized and converted to assist patients affected by Covid. The same measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus have led to a tightening of access to health facilities, where, on the one hand, emergency activity has remained guaranteed, on the other, the fight against Covid has led to an enormous compression of all other outpatient clinical activities, including cancer screenings, probably one of the most serious side effects of the pandemic, destined to have repercussions over time".
Doria then points the finger at the Crenos investigation : "It highlights aspects that cannot be decontextualized from the period under consideration, i.e. 2021, unless you want to carry out an enormous propaganda work, wanting to tell a "reality" very far from the true and incontrovertible fact . Talking about the renunciation of treatment on the island by one patient out of five at a time when the health system itself was "in check" and oriented towards the management of the pandemic emergency cannot represent a correct reading. Today's health problems are to be found in the wrong choices and in the lack of national and regional planning that date back at least fifteen years ».
