In emergency rooms, patients must be admitted within 240 minutes of triage for white codes; within 120 minutes for green codes; and 60 minutes for blue codes. This is what the council resolution approved last Wednesday requires, and you don't even have to be an emergency worker to understand that the goal is entirely utopian: currently, waiting times range from five hours and up, sometimes reaching eleven or twelve hours, and sometimes even an entire day.
The requests
Another request to Arnas Brotzu and the AOUs of Cagliari and Sassari is to admit patients to the inpatient ward within four hours, to shorten the "boarding" time in the emergency rooms (the time spent on stretchers in the corridor). After the May 6th diktats to combat waiting lists, another crackdown has been implemented, following union complaints about a system on the verge of collapse, burdened by the presence of hundreds of thousands of tourists, extreme heat, and staff vacations.
"Reducing overcrowding in emergency rooms and ensuring faster admission times are goals we share. But goals don't create beds. If at Brotzu we have full wards and patients in the corridors, we can't solve the problem simply by asking the hospital to do even more ," says Emanuele Cabras, Cimo-Fesmed corporate secretary at Arnas Brotzu.
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