The Regional Council's healthcare policy will not change direction. Regional President and interim councilor Alessandra Todde made this clear in her lengthy speech to the Regional Council at the end of the debate on the (defeated) motion presented by the center-right. " The Region is not standing still today. It is working on regulatory reorganization and overall management," she explained. " It is working on staffing, strengthening the regional network with Community Houses, Community Hospitals, and Local Operations Centers. It has adopted a plan to structurally address emergency room overcrowding."
The president clarified that "there are still excessively long waits, regions that feel distant, healthcare workers who work under pressure every day." In short, the system's crisis exists. But " Sardinian healthcare didn't enter a crisis yesterday. The difficulties we face today didn't arise in recent years and aren't the product of a single political era." Now, however, " we can say with conviction and pride that we are working with all our strength to change what isn't working, improving the current system."
Two significant developments: the status of construction sites and the expiration of spending deadlines dictated by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), and the management of waiting lists. On the first front: " We have greatly accelerated. In fact, by December 2025, construction sites at Community Houses had increased from 26% to 94% active, with 47 of 50 projects started. Community Hospitals reached 100% capacity, having started all 13 planned interventions. Therefore, by May 31, 2026, we will begin healthcare activities in all planned facilities." On waiting lists: "For too long, monitoring of waiting lists has been fragmented, uneven, lacking a true public oversight and a unified interpretation. We have chosen to change our approach in this area as well. The National Waiting List Platform, operational since January 2025, allows for the acquisition and monthly updating of data and guarantees public access. We have decided to adopt the national system, sending monthly waiting list flows, ensuring transparency and visibility of the status of waiting lists in Sardinia. Furthermore, "we have decided to manage not only the supply but also the demand for healthcare." And again, "to work on the quality of the CUP (single booking centers) through training programs for dedicated operators, in order to simplify citizens' access to regional healthcare services." And then, regarding the allocation of financial resources, "the approach we have followed is clear: to use the entire available system, both public and accredited, to provide faster responses to citizens."
The center-right is dissatisfied with the governor's intervention. In his reply, the motion's first signatory, Paolo Truzzu (FdI), mentioned the things listed by Todde that haven't been done but are beginning to be done. Therefore, "we're starting two years late, very late."