There are 40 million for healthcare, to be managed over the next three years: 12 will be used to pay for trips for treatment outside Sardinia, almost five and a half are intended to purchase healthcare services from private individuals with a view to reducing waiting lists . But money has also been allocated for public works (23 million, 10 of which are intended for local roads), the environment (2 million a year, for the increase of the forest heritage), civil protection (4.5 million which are used to purchase new vehicles) and sums also for other sectors.
The budget changes approved on the proposal of the regional budget councilor, Giuseppe Meloni, amount to 250 million for the three-year period (190 million for 2024 alone): maneuvers which became necessary, in the adjustment phase, from the communication by of the State, of greater revenues due to the Region, not included in the forecast budget.
«I invited my fellow councilors», explains the member of the Council, «to constantly monitor the expenditure and thus avoid possible errors, verifying that the appropriations included in the budget forecast as in the variations actually have the possibility of being spent during the year. We must avoid accumulating surpluses and creating suffering for some expenditure items which deserve particular attention."
Below are the interventions in detail.
- Healthcare. 40 million euros for the three-year period, of which 28 in the first year, destined for healthcare and social policies. Of these 12 million are necessary to cover the 2022 balance of passive mobility, i.e. all the health services that Sardinian patients have used in the regions of the rest of the peninsula. 5.440 million euros are intended to purchase healthcare services for hospital and outpatient care from accredited private individuals with the aim of reducing waiting lists. 1.4 million euros are the resources necessary to pay for the services provided by healthcare personnel during the Covid emergency; 3.2 million are the funds allocated as contributions for people suffering from fibromyalgia; 1 and a half million euros will instead satisfy the entire needs represented by local authorities for free nursery schools.











