Starting tomorrow, from 8am to 8pm, the Isili emergency room will reopen. The decision arose following the meeting of the Crisis Unit which was held this morning in the headquarters of the ASL 8 management in Cagliari.
«Problem solved», says the Region: the facility had been closed due to lack of staff, with one doctor sick and another transferred by order of the labor judge.
The Cagliari Local Health Authority had managed to ensure opening for only 12 hours a day. He then made it known that the activity was suspended because "currently the medical managers on duty will not be able to guarantee shifts in the next few days". A situation that the mayor of Isili, Luca Pilia, had defined as "absurd", calling on colleagues in the area to mobilize with a single objective: to reopen the department. Which will happen from tomorrow.
«A quick response that we welcome – said the mayor -. Thanks to the commitment of the general management, the doctors who made themselves available and the regional council who mobilized to provide an answer to our territory. In the immediate future it will be necessary to intervene to resolve other critical issues and improve health services in the Sarcidano-Barbagia di Seulo. We await a meeting with the President of the Regional Council and with the Health Councilor."
«Thanks to the availability of the medical managers of the San Giuseppe Calasanzio hospital in Isili and the heads of the SS Trinità in Cagliari, the service will be operational again to guarantee healthcare and urgent emergency activities - explains the manager of the ASL of Cagliari Marcello Tidore -. Extraordinarily, we managed to find this solution immediately, thanks to the spirit of self-sacrifice of the SS Trinità healthcare workers who recognize that in Isili as an important node in the company's hospital network".
Now the local health authority is in contact with the regional health department for the evaluation of "structural solutions which evidently cannot be found only within the local health authority of Cagliari".
This morning, after the announcement of the closure of the emergency room, a protest demonstration was held by some citizens in front of the Isili hospital.
(Unioneonline)