Nurses and workers threatening to leave their jobs due to tiring shifts and staff shortages. It is the consequence of the covid emergency in the Sassari hospitals. Never so many since the beginning of the pandemic, positive patients create a situation of overcrowding in the emergency room and the saturation of the covid departments in the Aou of Sassari, an alarm that threatens to blow up the health facility.
The serious critical issues that emerged in the various intensive care sections were listed in a detailed report sent by Francesco Luigi Bandiera, health director of the Sassari hospital, to the prefect and mayor of Sassari as well as to the regional health department. He asks for help from the hospitals of Nuoro, Olbia and Oristano.
An appeal also supported by the rector of the University of Sassari, Gavino Mariotti and by the general director of the Aou, Antonio Spano. Someone speaks of a disaster announced. Fausta Pileri, NurSind manager, territorial representative of the nursing professions union says: “Our appeals have remained unheard and the problem of the covid emergency has been underestimated. There was a lack of planning, with the emergency room which from the beginning of the pandemic found itself managing hospitalizations with a lower number of nurses than expected, and many of them not adequately trained to assist patients suffering from pathologies and covids ".
The staff are exhausted and currently eight doctors and nine nurses test positive. “Nurses are in trouble and many of them want to quit - adds Pileri - tired of being insulted and threatened”. The health sector on January 28th announces a strike called by the NurSind trade union association.