One doctor sick, the other transferred by order of the labor judge (he won a case). And the emergency room of San Giuseppe Calasanzio in Isili closes due to lack of staff.
The Cagliari Local Health Authority had managed to ensure opening for only 12 hours a day. Now the management has announced that the activity is suspended because "currently the medical managers on duty will not be able to guarantee shifts in the next few days".
In a note we read: «Well aware of the overcrowding situation in the summer period, and with the main intention of guaranteeing assistance to citizens and emergency - urgency activities in the area, the company has therefore undertaken in recent months all the paths that can be taken to find efficient solutions and avoid the interruption of the emergency room service".
There was also recourse to additional services with the medical directors of Santisisma Trinità and Brotzu (already overworked due to the significant influx of patients), and an urgent request had been forwarded to Ares for the need for healthcare personnel to be assigned to the emergency room.
The Local Health Authority announces that «in order therefore to give an adequate response to citizens' requests, pending the return to service of the staff dedicated to the structure and a re-evaluation by the Labor Judge (following an appeal from the Local Health Authority of Cagliari) ", we read, "to avoid the interruption of public service" , the Company "alerted Areus and the other emergency services to guarantee the emergency-urgency system to the inhabitants of the area". Therefore: we rely on ambulances and air ambulances.
A situation that the mayor of Isili, Luca Pilia, defines as "absurd". And he calls on his colleagues in the area to mobilize with a single objective: to reopen the department. ( HERE IS HIS STATEMENTS ).
THE REGION – «After discussions with the general management of ASL 8, the department was reassured that an operational meeting will be convened immediately with the relevant departments in order to avoid the feared closure of the emergency room of the Isili hospital», let the regional health department know.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)