The cycle of meetings organized by the Sardinian Health Department continues to illustrate the territorial medicine plan to stakeholders, 180 pages that contain the second pillar of the major reorganization in the area. The first pillar is the governance reform approved last year but still to be implemented, the third will be the review of the hospital network.
Today the commissioner Mario Nieddu shared it with the unions, immediately specifying that it is "a first draft and not a document carved in the rock".
What "we are going to adopt - explained Nieddu - is a reform that will redesign a fundamental part of the health system in our area. This is why we are involving all stakeholders, who are thus called to actively participate in the discussion".
"Nothing will be dropped from above - continues the commissioner -: the goal is to put together the observations and make any corrections before the proposal begins its institutional path".
Nieddu then underlined how the new model aims “to overcome the territorial-hospital dualism: the centrality is given to the citizen and his assistance needs. The logic of taking charge of the patient changes. It will no longer be the citizen who has to orient himself within the health system, but the system will take charge of the patient and trace the most appropriate care path, making the response more effective and the entire health system more efficient ". the commissioner continued, space also "for the implementation of telemedicine and remote reporting technologies, the enhancement of services 116 and 117, now active on an experimental basis, to be combined with the 118 service dedicated to emergencies". "A model that does not do this work - specified Nieddu - risks unloading all the burden on hospitals and in particular on emergency rooms, which inevitably go into suffering ".
For the secretary of the CGIL Samuele Piddiu it was "a useful meeting but not at all decisive: it is necessary to immediately address the critical issues of health, those that undermine people's health day after day, with endless waiting lists, interventions urgent postponed and departments closed ". However, he specified, "we are recording a reversal of the trend, albeit in an unusual way, because we have been called up for the first time in almost three years but what is needed is concreteness". According to the trade unionist, the draft "outlines general ideas, some even good ones, but there is a complete lack of a time schedule of the projects to be carried out".
(Unioneonline / vl)