Volume of waiting lists and service waivers.
These are the two nodes that in the Covid period shook the health system of the island.
The Territorial Medicine Plan presented in recent days by Councilor Mario Nieddu accurately analyzes the two phenomena which, even before the pandemic, had exceeded the emergency threshold. And, above all for the lists, it gives space to the possible lines of intervention: above all, the system of priority classes, intended as a “valid tool for assigning the correct access time to health services and the most suitable organizational regime”.
WAIVERS - As for waivers, Sardinia occupies the first place in Italy with a value of 11.7%, which the year before had reached 12.5%. It means that, out of 100 patients who need to be treated or checked, almost 12 give up. The island is worse than Calabria (10.2%), Abruzzo (9.8), Molise (8.2%), Lazio (7.7%), Basilicata (7.2%), Puglia (7.1 %). Things are much better in the north, where the provinces of Trento and Bolzano recorded 3.3% and 3.4% respectively. Emilia Romagna (4.1%), Friuli Venezia Giulia (4.4%), Liguria (4.6%) and Lombardy (5.5%) also did well.
They are Istat data from 2019, but in 2020 the situation has worsened due to the coronavirus.
The average percentage of 6.3% in Italy grew by 40% in the year to forget: in the midst of a health emergency, 50% of those who give up treatment reported reasons related to the pandemic.
WAITING LISTS - Before Covid the prevailing reasons for renunciation, in Sardinia more than elsewhere, were of an economic nature and linked to long waiting lists.
In the island, as in the rest of the country, there are significant differences related to gender.
The renunciation of care is predominantly women: in 2019, about 14% of women said they had given up health services, unlike men who were about one in ten to give up. In 2020, even higher values were recorded, about 18% of women, compared to about 12% of men, although the figure is strongly influenced by the Covid-19 emergency.
(Unioneonline)
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