«The lack of neurorehabilitation beds has dramatic effects». And the regional councilor for health, Carlo Doria, will have to appear in the regional council to explain what is happening, and why, in a health sector that should deal with serious patients, instead it is almost dismantled and the dedicated departments, foreseen, are not there. The exponent of the Giunta was summoned to the Health Commission, at the request of the opposition: questions and requests for clarifications remained unanswered for months.
The most difficult situation is in the southeast of Sardinia. There should be a complex Neurorehabilitation facility in Cagliari: it would be used to treat patients suffering from a stroke or involved in particularly serious accidents. He was at Brotzu, but was dismantled in view of a transfer to Businco which was never implemented. Even if hundreds of thousands of euros were spent on setting up the premises.
In addition, as emerged in recent days, the head physician Marco Monticone, whom the former manager of Brotzu Franco Meloni describes as an infrequent hospital visitor, is involved in an international academic case: he is a professor at the University of Cagliari, some of his publications in scientific journals were withdrawn because they were considered unreliable after a criticism by a team of British researchers. A complex situation, which at the moment does not affect the validity of the agreement between the University and Brotzu ( FULL DETAILS HERE ).
«Only a part of the 92 beds provided in the hospital network approved by the regional council in 2017 has actually been activated. The entire south-east of the island does not currently have an operating department destined for this function», explained Francesco Agus, Rossella Pinna, Gianfranco Ganau, Daniele Cocco and Michele Ciusa in the request to convene. Who continue: "This shortage has dramatic effects: in particular, the insufficiency of the departments capable of taking care of the most serious patients (highly specialized neurorehabilitation units - code 75) often means that the treatments are inappropriate, that they lengthen the hospitalization times of patients with brain injury in acute wards (above all resuscitation, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery) greatly complicating the work of wards which already travel with hospitalization rates exceeding 100%. Finally, the enormous costs, both in terms of regional expenditure and sacrifices for families, linked to outgoing mobility outside the region".
Carlo Doria will have to talk about all this in the commission.
Henry Fresu
