«President Todde cannot divert attention from the real reasons for the strike at AOU Sassari».
Paolo Dettori , general secretary of the CGIL Civil Service of Northern Sardinia, has attacked the governor head-on after her recent statements opposing the mobilization called by CGIL-CISIL-UIL together with the various unions of the medical management of the University Hospital.
"Meanwhile," says Dettori, also speaking on behalf of the Sassari CGIL Labor Chamber, "the regional president hasn't granted us meetings for over a year regarding health policy decisions, and if she'd wanted to know our requests, she could have called us ." The secretary then focuses on the demands: "The failure to certify funding and contractual agreements for medical management and the sector, and the overcrowding of departments."
On this point, Dettori recalls that the critical situation is also caused by the shortage of acute care beds. On this point, the Campo Largo leader criticized the trade organizations, stating: "We must stop raising the spectre of acute care bed cuts." The general secretary of the CGIL Fp responded to this statement: "Let's not raise specters; we risk the specters becoming the hospitals. It is now clear that in some hospitals, such as Ozieri, Tempio, and La Maddalena, this is the intention."
Then the thrust: "Someone in the department," Dettori continues, "should explain to Todde what a post-acute bed is, which involves rehabilitation and long-term care and is part of the hospital network." It has nothing to do with community hospital beds "managed by nurses and for four hours by family doctors and, if available, by specialists who provide outpatient consultations." In short, something very different from the management of post-acute care, which is instead "purely hospital-based," as Dettori emphasizes, concluding: "This is what we are telling President Todde, otherwise we risk playing with words."