"Staff shortages and risky care at Brotzu." Unions are attacking the critical situation at the Cagliari hospital due to serious staffing shortages. Nursing Up reports the situation. "The situation," explains local director Marino Vargiu , "is continually worsening. We have now far exceeded safety levels, putting at risk not only the health and psychological well-being of workers, but also the very safety and quality of care provided to citizens on a daily basis."
"We can no longer speak of an emergency situation," reads a statement also signed by Diego Murracino, regional director of Nursing Up . "An organizational model has been in place for months that places the burden of its inefficiencies entirely on the shoulders of the staff in service: the severe staff shortage prevents coordinators from implementing appropriate shift schedules that comply with current regulations. Key operating units," the statement continues, "including Vascular Surgery, Cardiology, Hematology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, the Pediatric Emergency Department, and the Pediatric Clinic, to name just a few, find themselves operating under constant deficits on a daily basis."
"The emergency facing the regional healthcare system is now structural, stemming, on the one hand, from a lack of twenty-year planning and cuts implemented over time, and, on the other, from the slowness of this government and the regional department in adopting appropriate emergency and planning measures." The CGIL and FP Sardegna have thus intervened to reiterate the need for a different, more structured management of the healthcare system, which must begin with a comprehensive reorganization and cannot ignore discussions with representatives of those on the front lines every day, to address the extremely serious problems faced primarily by patients and, as we see with the increasingly frequent attacks, healthcare workers themselves.
"For some time," said CGIL Sardinia secretary Simona Fanzecco and FP-CGIL regional secretary Paolo Dettori , "we have been denouncing severe staffing shortages, from doctors to administrative staff. Added to this is a governance problem, namely the lack of regional leadership and clear, shared direction, including between the department's general management and the activities of individual companies. Furthermore, there is a critical issue related to the powers assigned to Ares, which strips away autonomy from individual companies and causes enormous delays in hiring processes and the signing of private law contracts with entities performing public functions."
