"Liver transplant recipients are being deprived of an indispensable facility in the post-surgery period." Pino Argiolas, historic president of the Prometeo Onlus association and now a member of the board of the transplant recipients' association, took an angry stance when he learned from an interview given by the Brotzu's medical director, Raimondo Pinna, that the pediatric intensive care unit will be set up on the seventh floor of the Brotzu.
The new destination, explains Argiolas , «replaces the old semi-intensive therapy which with all the modifications had cost 400 thousand euros to guarantee liver transplant recipients a peaceful post-operative recovery».
The representative of Prometeo says he is certain that «in Sardinia there is a need for a pediatric intensive care unit: it has been requested for years by citizens and doctors, but we are also certain that it cannot be opened by stealing the facility from other fragile patients such as transplant recipients».
This decision by the health director "is a further demonstration of strength towards those who with such dedication and great professionalism have performed over 500 liver transplants in Cagliari". The name is not there, but the reference is to Fausto Zamboni.
The journalist from L'Unione Sarda, Francesco Abate, a transplant, also uses social media to vent: «For months I forced myself to keep quiet. But now I've lost patience because I've lost hope. Where is the famous change of management of the Sardinian health system? Where is the famous change of management of the Brotzu hospital?»
Abate asks this to all the regional councilors of the majority, «to the kind president Alessandra Todde, as your hopeful voter, not as a journalist, not as a writer, but as an eternal patient who since 1983 has been followed by a place of excellence such as the Brotzu hospital. I ask you, therefore, if the news that prompted me to write this public post is true».
And if it is true , "I really ask you to take charge of the fate of the Brotzu hospital and its transplant center."
