Endless waiting lists: one year for a gastroscopy, two for an MRI at Brotzu

Undergoing a gastroscopy in Cagliari is impossible. You have to reach Oristano and in any case wait until September 22nd of next year, to be precise 349 days , hoping that your health conditions do not worsen. Even worse for a colonoscopy: you have to resort to private or go to another region.

In short, the problem of waiting lists has not only not been resolved but has even worsened.

There are no appointments available even for the MRI of the heart . The public's responses to a patient needing an endocrinological visit are also decidedly too slow. In this case, we start on October 23, in Teulada, and then we jump directly to next year for the next appointment: January 14 , at the Casa della salute, also in Teulada. Only at the end of the month does a glimmer of hope open up in Cagliari, three months after the request. And again, it takes five months for a liver check-up in the city, even for an eye exam you have to wait until the new year.

If we consider the monitoring of the outpatient specialist services at Brotzu, we have to wait 722 days (basically two years) for an MRI . This applies to the brain, thoracic spine, cervical spine and lumbosacral spine. It's a little less bad for the lower abdomen, where the time is around 704 days.

Long lists, which will expand even more considering that the state of agitation of doctors (and nurses) is blocking overtime and additional services (just when the Council has allocated significant resources to do them).

497 are the days to have an appointment for a cardiology visit, for an electrocardiogram and a cardiac color Doppler ultrasound; 519 for an endocrinology visit; 323 for a CT scan of the abdomen; 239 for a CT scan of the skull and brain; 143 for a mammogram; 167 for an ultrasound of the neck and salivary glands . Very short times instead for an obstetric ultrasound (3 days) and for a gynecological visit (7).