The first budget of the legislature has been approved and waiting lists remain the most serious problem of Sardinian healthcare. Despite a budget that dedicates something like 4.2 billion euros to healthcare. An emergency to be addressed with structural measures and, in the short term, with allocations for the benefit of accredited private individuals. But in the 2025 budget there is very little: just 12.5 million euros. "Ridiculous figures, considering that we spend 4.2 billion euros overall on healthcare", accuses the center-right. Which, throughout the budget law process, has asked to increase the allocations. In vain. The majority has preferred to invest in the supplementary agreement of general practitioners (15 million) and in incentives (3 million) to convince doctors to work in peripheral areas. New resources for reducing waiting lists could arrive in the next budget adjustment that the Budget Councilor Giuseppe Meloni has announced by the summer.
Different positions in the center-left, which with Francesco Agus (Progressisti) points out: «On the waiting lists it is not enough to intervene in the Budget. In the last five years over 40 million euros have been allocated but not used. Structural measures are needed, starting with the CUP: today it is little more than a call center ».
Meanwhile, the quagmire of healthcare continues: visits and tests postponed for up to two and a half years, while one hundred thousand Sardinians give up on treatment.
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