« Currently the waiting list for the pathology in our center is about six months, therefore the patient is invited to go to another center outside the region» .
This is the incredible response given to a patient by the oncological radiotherapy service of San Francesco di Nuoro . The regional health system that surrenders, raises the white flag and advises Sardinians with cancer to go to be treated outside the region.
Two social workers in service in Fonni, Anna Gregu and Rosanna Veracchi , attached the document in a letter written to the Regional Health Councilor Carlo Doria to denounce that radiotherapy for Sardinian cancer patients "is no longer a right".
For weeks the two assistants collected the testimonies and the desperation of the patients and their families due to the dramatic delay in the times of radiotherapy treatments at San Francesco . Then they decided to write to the member of the Giunta, attaching the shocking document.
«It should be noted - reads the response to a patient - that it causes waiting lists, unfortunately it is not possible to respect a correct oncological timing . Currently the waiting list for the pathology in our center is about 6 months, therefore the patient is invited to go to another center outside the region".
“We have long been accustomed to the dismantling of the Sardinian health system but we have never seen something like this – the two social workers write in the letter -. In these days we are bewildered and powerless in the service where we operate, witnessing the desperation of the many cancer patients who have to undergo radiotherapy treatment , which they cannot use in any garrison in Sardinia due to the long waiting lists. In all of this, the Sardinian health system formally advises users, in writing, to go to structures on the peninsula for the treatments they need, in short, those who knock on the doors of our health care encounter a devastating scenario.
The two assistants ask the councilor to " prevent the exodus of Sardinian cancer patients and their families " and recall that many citizens of the island "are forced to give up treatment".
(Unioneonline/L)