According to what we learn on the basis of the news provided most recently by the press, many Sardinians risk finding themselves without a family doctor as a result of the retirements of the white coats. In essence, the specialists who had responded to the Region's call for tenders, and had therefore agreed to work in the inland countries, effectively allowing them to ensure the assistance of the public health service in the most disadvantaged locations, would find themselves currently having to bear not only the workload in the clinic, including home visits, prescriptions and processing of documents, but also the weight and commitment of the lessons and internship.
The question, if carefully considered, would seem to arise and (re)propose itself to general attention in all its problematic nature, and it would seem to require not only prompt and timely interventions, but also certain definitional profiles, aimed at definitively overcoming a phase that could probably still be defined as an emergency. Even more so when we consider the geographical characteristics of the Sardinian territory and the distribution of the population in the so-called internal areas, that is, to put it more simply, in the areas distant from the centers of concentration of essential public services, although rich in important environmental and cultural resources. And even more so when we continue to consider that precisely because they are such, such areas, as well as the population inhabiting them, would require forms of advanced management of territorial medicine organized and managed in such a way as to allow anyone who finds themselves in need of use the service in a constant and structural manner. Especially following the very serious health, economic and social crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The specific matter, therefore, would seem to impose a series of detailed reflections concerning not only the instrumental and territorial organization of the available resources, but also their direct connection with the health needs of the territory which probably appear to have changed compared to the past also as a consequence of the pandemic period as well as of the natural aging process of the population. In the meantime, because, in such a detailed territory as the Sardinian one appears to be, it would perhaps be useful to think about stable health and welfare facilities in the internal areas that could contribute to better managing the hospital load as well. Therefore, because, even considering everything, it would seem useful not only to fully reorganize the service in the area, but also to set up essential levels of general medical care capable of guaranteeing the provision of the same levels of care throughout the entire area. Finally, because, in any case, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan seems to have foreseen the allocation of important financial resources useful for intervening on the critical issues still existing in the sector of local medicine through the creation of the so-called Community Houses, the implementation of home medical-health services, and again, the activation of community hospitals.
