A dramatic turn of events that leaves the representatives of Sardinian healthcare dismayed . After being heard by the Health Commission on bill 40, the presidents of the Medical Associations of Cagliari, Oristano and Sassari – Emilio Montaldo, Antonio Sulis and Salvatore Lorenzoni – discover that «the healthcare reform is now ready, without anyone having had the opportunity to view the final text».
For the doctors' representatives, the issue is as serious as it is paradoxical: "The professionals had been informed of the existence of a "maxi-amendment" with different contents than the draft on which they had been called to express their opinion, with the promise of a new hearing. A promise never kept."
And so - they say - while they were waiting for a new meeting, they learned from the media that the process is now closed . "We are facing yet another reform that risks further immobilizing the regional health system", denounce the doctors, who have previously expressed unanimous concerns about the critical aspects of the project.
"We need measures that guarantee continuity and operability, not new bureaucratic superstructures that slow down the activity of health companies", reiterate Montaldo, Sulis and Lorenzoni. Too many times, Sardinian health has seen reforms that, rather than solving problems, have aggravated them with disorganization and management paralysis.
The Orders do not give up and ask for a real confrontation, without political games or decisions imposed from above.
"Far from entering into the merits of political planning, our objective is to safeguard a health system already in difficulty, avoiding further operational blocks more than is already happening with the management of vital and now very urgent business activities", underline the three presidents.