Muravera is ready to welcome dialysis and transplant recipients who choose the beaches of the town of Sarrabus to spend their holidays.
This was confirmed by Bruno Denotti , president of the Sardinian nephropathic association Asnet Sardegna, who in recent days had asked for an intervention from the Sardinia Region to respond to requests for help from those patients who, wishing to spend a holiday on the island , were denied a place by the dialysis center contacted due to the "serious shortage of staff in the Sardinian health system which does not even spare nephropaths".
However, the holiday in Sarrabus and Muravera is not in danger thanks to the Nephrology and dialysis department of the San Marcellino hospital directed by Dr. Stefano Murtas and beyond.
«Muravera manages to accommodate the requests of nephropathic tourists – explained Bruno Denotti, president of Asnet – patients who come on vacation have at their disposal a center of excellence for high-tech extracorporeal dialysis treatments , mainly specialized in renal insufficiency in all stages up to the terminal one. The greatest difficulties, unfortunately, are recorded in northern Sardinia: we note that Sardinia, despite being a region with a tourist vocation, is not yet able to offer an adequate programming of the service, capable of responding to the numerous requests that arrive only from the peninsula and by residents, but also by tourists from abroad».
Muravera, in addition to the dialysis center of the San Marcellino hospital, can count on a structure dedicated precisely to summer dialysis , a villa, a few steps from the sea of Costa Rei, with 9 beds and also a 700 square meter garden. A structure confiscated from the mafia and managed by the Asnet.
The project was taken up and made operational by the current municipal administration led by Mayor Salvatore Piu . «A project in which I firmly believe - explained the mayor of Muravera who knows the problem well, being a doctor and with a past as a manager at San Marcellino di Muravera and at the Marino hospital in Cagliari and general manager of the Medio Campidano Local Health Authority - the patients are transported to the San Marcellino hospital on the day set for dialysis and brought back to the villa once the treatments have been completed. All for free, just as their families can enjoy the sea of Costa Rei for free».
After the winter closure, the villa will be operational again and will host patients in shifts of a week during the summer period .
"I would like this structure to be dedicated to Giuseppe Canu, the historic president of Asnet who left us some time ago, who dedicated his life to nephropaths", the conclusion.
For Roberta Laconi, municipal councilor with responsibility for Health, the Costa Rei facility available to nephropaths and their families combines tourist and health needs: "Patients - explained Laconi - do not have to travel hundreds of kilometers for therapy and can enjoy, together with the family, the beauties of the territory».