Endless waiting lists: a year and a half for an MRI

The situation of the waiting lists does not improve one iota. Despite the targeted resources, the incentives for doctors, the measures to extend the times of disbursements a bit (scarce, to tell the truth, because in general on the weekend practically everything is closed), despite the start of the measures required by the national law to attack the nightmare, Sardinian patients still have many difficulties in accessing care. And the reform of the CUP, the Single Booking Center, announced in recent days, has just started: there will be a tender for a new and much more efficient service, but we will not see the results for at least a year.

The overall benefits provided to Sardinians, by the public and private sector, have collapsed. In five years, one million less: they were 8,058,407 in 2019, they fell to 7,039,344 in 2024.

The data

Doing a colonoscopy is a vain hope. In the ASL of Cagliari – monitoring of last March – the first expected availability is: 617 days at Santissima Trinità, 559 days at San Marcellino di Muravera, 444 days at San Giuseppe di Isili.

For a cardiology visit you can wait up to 211 days; for an endocrinology visit 401 days; for a pneumology visit 311 days; for a CT scan of the complete abdomen 224 days; for a brain MRI 554 days; for a MRI of the cervical, thoracic, lumbosacral spine 230 days.