There were those who remained on a stretcher for ten days and in the end, exhausted, returned without having been admitted to the ward. It's called boarding, it's the phenomenon of "parking" patients in emergency rooms and it's becoming increasingly exhausting. For the sick and hospital staff. It happens everywhere now. But the latest report from the unions arrives on the Aou of Cagliari. From the Polyclinic, to be precise, which in recent days also had to take responsibility for blocking access to the Brotzu, due to the blackout.
«We are returning from days of total apocalypse», say the health workers registered with NurSind, «in which all the incompetence of those responsible for guaranteeing the safety and health of citizens has emerged. Obviously there was only talk of the temporary closure of the hospital - and the related emergency room of the hospital - of Brotzu, but no one worried about the resulting burden on the Aou. The Brotzu episode is only the tip of the iceberg of an emergency situation that has continued since December 2021."
The patients on boarding, say the nurses, «are the total responsibility of the medical, nursing and emergency room staff. This explains the long waits for the evaluation of new accesses. The most common examples of boarding patient diagnoses are pneumonia, sepsis, Covid infection. Boarding is added to the presence of patients in support, therefore patients already hospitalized in the destination department but still physically stationed on a stretcher in the emergency room waiting for a free bed".
The company management, the health workers write, «has been informed daily, for years now and in traceable ways, by the medical staff on duty, of the situation but has still not been able to manage the real emergency caused by the insufficient number of available beds, from the lack of staff, from the closure of services/departments of other hospitals (such as the orthopedics of Nuoro or Carbonia, Isili, San Gavino which do not guarantee the presence of all specialists or diagnostics) which forces patients to come to our observation from miles and miles away."
