There is a lack of doctors and nurses, the Sardinian health system is almost haywire

The Sardinian Healthcare goes beyond the ordinary emergency, and for the summer it has already begun to throw us into a desert of doctors that tormented us even when there were not the many tourists we have now. We do not find them, the doctors, because there are none, but also because too many "stakes" hinder their insertion into the system .

And so the medical guards continue to be unguarded, the emergency rooms to collapse, many specialists are lacking (including anesthesiologists, without whom one cannot enter the operating room) and the situation of the general practitioners is also dramatic. A summer emergency in the normal emergency.

The emergency-urgency

The Sardinian Confederal Health Unions sound the alarm for 118: in the Ghilarza, Lanusei, Tempio and Tortolì stations the workforce is halved and the workers have to skip holidays and rest . For this they wrote to the regional councilor for health, Mario Nieddu, to urge him to intervene urgently, before even those who work on emergency vehicles end up in the ambulance .

The snubbed calls

Just yesterday, the last call for proposals wanted by the regional councilor for health, Mario Nieddu, to try to cover some of the many vacant medical centers expired. With the hope that something can be done. The recent call for "hired doctors" for first aid has gone deserted: no cooperative has presented a proposal.

The solutions

The limited number has "mowed" the rate of medical graduates, graduate schools have not had scholarships for many years: no wonder the shortage of white coats. Domenico Salvago, regional president of Snami (autonomous national union of Italian doctors), says that some proposals have been made to councilor Nieddu. «Buffer solutions», he specifies, «waiting for the doctors enrolled in the School to specialize. For example, if we decide that the medical guards can be opened by any qualified doctor, and we organize ourselves in a practical and technical way, we resolve the issue in many vacant offices ».

Then there is the proposal to include the trainees advanced by Emilio Montaldo, president of the Medical Association of the province of Cagliari: «Professional training contracts for those enrolled in the last years of the specialization school».

The trainees

And while all over Europe doctors qualified in the first year of specialization school are also made to work, in the Italian public health sector they are instead "banned". In the meantime, this summer it will be better not to take "blows of air", to avoid that the other blow will give us the lack of assistance from doctors who are not there, in a period in which Covid raises its head with its variants that are increasingly contagious.

(Unioneonline)