Every single day she connects to Cup Web and tries to make an appointment to have a breast MRI. Without success. The booking site's response is always the same, for over a month now: "It was not possible to calculate any available appointments". In other words: there is no place anywhere, in any public or private facility in Sardinia.
It happens to a 67-year-old woman from Sassari who underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer in 2016. During her last annual check-up, a few days before Christmas, the ultrasound revealed what she had already suspected: the prosthesis is becoming damaged.
"Everything else is fine, thank God, but the prosthesis probably needs replacing, which is normal after eight years, and the radiologist told me to have an MRI, just to see if it's time to change it. I'm out of follow-up, so I have to organize the tests myself each time. Now I do everything online, so this time too I connected to Cup Web to make an appointment. But nothing. I live in Sassari, I'm also willing to travel, even to go to Cagliari and pay the costs that the trip entails, but I haven't found anything."
The patient is one of the founders of Free Women Fighting for the Right to Health, an association that collects reports and complaints about the problems that Sardinian citizens experience every day. Yesterday on the movement's Facebook page she posted a screenshot certifying the fact that she found all the doors closed, and wrote an appeal: "Councillor Bartolazzi, what can you tell us? This is not about waiting lists, this is about the total absence of a health service. For a month, if a woman who has undergone a mastectomy tries to book a bilateral MRI of the breast, for the replacement of a deteriorated prosthesis, in all of Sardinia she cannot find an appointment, in any hospital, neither public nor private with an agreement".
