In Sardinia the number of deaths in the emergency room is growing (a lot), even if there are (many) fewer accesses. And the patients who have had to increase the costs of being treated in private facilities more than the others on the peninsula are Sardinian. The new generations of doctors do not work in the field, for the indispensable apprenticeship, because the postgraduates are considered eternal students. Family doctors are forced to follow the inhabitants of six or seven countries, and they can't do it. And if you focus on the "homes of health" to cover local medicine, it happens that they are also inaugurated three times. And they don't work.
It was supposed to be a conference organized also with the aim of proposing solutions, the one organized today in Cagliari by Cittadinanzattiva, at the T-Hotel. The title was: "Health care emerging from the pandemic: critical issues and future prospects". The solution hypotheses have arrived. But first a flood of problems emerged, supported by unequivocal data: many for each intervention by doctors and nurses who took turns at the microphone.
Disturbing numbers have emerged from the report by Giorgio Pia, promoter of the initiative, for years head of the emergency room of the Santissima Trinità.
Official tables state that the peak of accesses to the emergency-urgency facilities of all hospitals on the island was reached in 2019: they had been 479,985. In the following two years the upheaval of Covid. Then 2022, with the return to slow normality: 328,030 patients showed up. Problem: in 2019 there were 601 deaths in the emergency room. In the year just ended they rose to 866. 44% more: a huge amount (in 2020 there were 630 deaths declared, down to 564 in the following 12 months) .
The reasons for these crazy numbers are provided by Pia himself: «The average age of those who die in the emergency room is high. When they get to the hospital they are in bad shape. And they die. But there is another factor: «In the emergency room, assistance is guaranteed, excellent professionals work there. And here is the overcrowding, the difficulty of management.
