In Nuoro it is a disaster outside the hospital, where there are no general practitioners, but also inside, "with the San Francesco debased for at least seven years". In Ogliastra there is a huge lack of staff in the ward and numerous towns do not have a "doctor". Like a third of the population of the Oristano area, "around 45 thousand residents without coverage". In Cagliari things are better on this front, but it is into the healthcare facilities of the capital that patients from all the other uncovered areas flock. It is inevitable that hospitals will suffer. And from Sassari comes an appeal for adequate compensation for doctors, while this regional council also seems to want to focus on coin-operated ones. Thus political controversy erupts on this point.
The numbers on Sardinia deprived of the right to health were brought to the Regional Council, Health Commission, by orders and unions of doctors from across the island.
Maria Giobbe, for Nuoro, illustrated the data from San Francesco: «For about seven years the hospital has been debased and we have denounced this phenomenon. The emergency room staff was 18 medical managers but today there are 5 plus the director plus 7 specialists, who are not self-employed, plus some "token operators" for the white codes. As for general practitioners, there were 34 in the city and today there are 15 but things are worse in the local towns, where there are none at all. Therefore, the emergency room at San Francesco had to fatally take on the shortcomings of basic medicine."
Giobbe added: «The Orthopedics department is no longer able to operate and only carries out daytime clinics; surgery, which also celebrated 500 robotic operations, was divided into two: one department has a director and a doctor while the other has a director and 4 residents." Problems, deficiencies and inefficiencies also occur in the Urology and Geriatrics departments while «strokes can be dealt with in Interventional Radiology from 8am to 2pm on weekdays. Otherwise the patient is diverted from San Francesco to other hospitals." (176 on duty out of a staff of 228) and also social health workers: 85 out of 100. Not to mention general practitioners, «completely absent in Ulassai, Seui , Osini and Ussassai.
