In the hospital, the acute phases of the disease, the chronicities in the area : this is the model of assistance towards which the region wants to veer forcefully, in line with what is happening on a national level. This is why Brotzu's diabetology department will be transferred to Quartu , to Local Health Authority 8: "The many people affected by diabetes", explains the health councilor Carlo Doria, " will continue to have the hospital as a point of reference for all the serious complications that this disease can lead to acute phases, the prevention of which must however find a daily response in the local health structures ».

Not a simple closure, specifies the exponent of the Giunta Solinas: " We are not making a cut or a reduction ", he continues. "The transfer of diabetes will involve an enhancement of the service, in a structure with medical and nursing staff adequate to the volumes required, in what will become a point of reference for patients in a metropolitan area logic".

Doria assures that nothing will be left to chance, taking into account the singularity of the disease in the island context: «The regional council of diabetes is already at work and a precise survey is underway that examines all possible critical issues, in order to be able to put in the field as necessary to give guarantees to citizens and health professionals. Diabetes», concludes the commissioner, « represents a real scourge on our territory , which records important numbers worldwide. Treatment and assistance for diabetics are an absolute priority for us".

(Unioneonline/L.Ne.)