"The Region announces hiring, but Nuoro is losing doctors. This puts the hospital's functioning at risk : starting October , Transfusion Medicine risks being left with only one doctor employed at the San Francesco Hospital in Nuoro ." This was stated by city and provincial councilor Pierluigi Saiu: "While Regional President Alessandra Todde continues to announce extraordinary plans and thousands of hires in the Sardinian healthcare system, the reality tells a very different story," the center-right representative attacks. "The Oristano Local Health Authority, with management resolution no. 614 of July 15, has in fact hired one of the two doctors currently working in Nuoro on a fixed-term basis, using a ranking that was supposed to help strengthen San Francesco, but which, instead, has had the opposite effect."
Saiu's complaint continues: "It's difficult to explain to citizens that a procedure designed to hire doctors ends up taking staff away from the very hospital that needs them most."
The facts speak for themselves. On March 27, Ares announced a selection process for temporary hires of Transfusion Medicine specialists. Only one doctor from the Nuoro Local Health Authority (ASL) chose to hire, but then declined the position. Subsequently, the Oristano Local Health Authority, drawing from those same rankings (specifically, the one for the Sulcis Local Health Authority), hired one of the two doctors currently working at San Francesco, who was on that same ranking. The result is paradoxical.
"A procedure designed to recruit staff," Saiu claims, "ends up weakening one of the most sensitive departments at Nuoro hospital. The problem isn't just the shortage of specialist doctors. The problem is how available professionals are managed. If a department already in dire straits loses one of its two permanent doctors," the center-right representative explains, "it means that the staff recruitment and distribution system isn't protecting the most vulnerable facilities, but continues to penalize them. We recently heard President Todde's announcements about a plan to hire 500 doctors. The point is that those doctors aren't there today. And precisely for this reason, the management of available resources should be based on priority criteria, safeguarding essential services first. Instead, the opposite is happening. Departments already operating under emergency conditions are being emptied."
"If the Transfusion Medicine department at San Francesco shuts down, it's not just a single department," Saiu continues. "It puts the entire hospital at risk. Without the Transfusion Center, essential services such as the Emergency Room, Surgery, Obstetrics, and numerous other essential services cannot be safely guaranteed. This is why we are calling for immediate intervention from the Regional President. We must prevent the Nuoro Transfusion Center from being left with just one doctor and putting San Francesco at risk. That department cannot rely solely on very costly agreements with other healthcare providers. President Todde, who is also the Regional Health Councilor, has the duty to govern these processes and ensure that staff is allocated according to criteria that protect the facilities most in need. Starting with Nuoro, which today undoubtedly represents the first emergency for the regional healthcare system."