Sassari health care collapsed.
Still exasperating expectations in the emergency room of the Santissima Annunziata , where the Covid area has long been abolished and in which 7 Covid-19 positive patients were treated only yesterday. And at this moment the structure is unable to ensure the flexibility necessary to support the situation . Which is certainly not better in the wards. In cardiology, just to cite an example, until yesterday there were several patients hospitalized in the ward, due to lack of seats in the rooms.
"These patients do not have a bell to signal any need - warns a nurse - and it is therefore very difficult to manage them . Especially the elderly. Who are those most exposed to risks and needs".
In addition, improper departments are used for particular cases. The boy who got hurt last Sunday while playing football in Sweet Milk (head trauma) was hospitalized in pediatrics , as there were no places in other more suitable wards. The young man, mind you, was well cared for, by his own admission and that of his family. In fact, doctors and nurses are blameless for this situation. Which depends both on the lack of beds but also on an overall organization that is leaving something to be desired. As in the clinics of San Pietro, where neurology patients are spread in other departments , with objective difficulties in being treated in a dignified manner, especially those who unfortunately have delicate pathologies. With a pandemic that has certainly not been defeated and that is still threatening.
Should cases of Covid-19 increase (as expected), the Sassari hospitals risk going haywire. Like two years ago, in the middle of the Covid emergency, when it was not uncommon to see mileage lines of ambulances in Viale Italia, waiting to take their patients to the emergency room. Perhaps the management, which obviously does not have a magic wand for beds, because cutting peripheral hospitals was an exclusively political choice, should at least review the overall organization of work in hospitals, starting with the emergency room, the first point of reference for patients. when they feel bad.
