A delegation from the Region and the Senate visited the hospitals of the ASL Gallura.
The regional councilor for health, Carlo Doria, and the councilor for public education, Andrea Biancareddu, took part in the inspection of Tempio Pausania. Doria then visited the facilities in Olbia and La Maddalena. The president of the Senate Health Commission, Francesco Zaffini, also arrived on the park island. The general director of the ASL Gallura, Marcello Acciaro, and the medical director, Raffaele De Fazio, accompanied the delegation inside the hospitals. Mayor Gianni Addis and Mayor Fabio Lai were present in Tempio Pausania.
"Through discussions with the institutions, the possibility emerged of leveraging interventions in favor of disadvantaged areas to make doctors aware of choosing this area as their place of work", underlines Marcello Acciaro. «Tempio is experiencing a condition of suffering dictated by a lack of personnel, a process that began several years ago. But through ad hoc legislative provisions which were discussed during the meeting, together with the willingness of the Region and the University to increase specialization schools and enrollments in the Faculty of Medicine, the city can still recover a central role for health in Gallura».
The visit continued in the Emergency Department of Olbia in the Operating Unit and in Emergency Medicine. «They have found a worthy organizational condition - adds the Director General of the ASL Gallura - and have ascertained that the diagnostic-therapeutic paths indicated with the new corporate reorganization are working. On Wednesday morning, in the middle of August, the month of maximum pressure on the emergency-urgency structures of Olbia, there were only four patients waiting to be seen and as many as 46 already directed towards the access routes. The heads of departments have reported to the commissioner the need to strengthen the staff. Our ASL has a deficit from this point of view and the willingness to fill it has been expressed by the Region, also in this case with well-defined legislative measures. Gallura has a specificity that must be taken into account: the health services are sized for a population of 160,000 people, but in the summer the catchment area increases tenfold and access to the Emergency Department is double the average. Doctors, nurses and health workers are working synergistically, but we need more "soldiers". The institutional commitment in this sense is a positive fact».
(Unioneonline/ss)
