The effects of the reduction will be seen in a few days. For now, those who were supposed to schedule shifts from yesterday onward have done so considering the expiration of the payroll workers' contracts. Therefore, they have rescheduled available resources, but have failed to prevent, at times, longer patient waits in the most at-risk emergency rooms.
However, long wait times are still being reported at the emergency rooms in the larger cities: five to nine hours at Brotzu for less critical cases, about two hours at Santissima Trinità, up to nine hours at the AoU in Sassari and San Francesco in Nuoro. This is the feedback coming from virtually all facilities in Sardinia on the first day without paid doctors. This is in addition to the news of the resignation of Rosangela Beretta, director of one of the most affected emergency rooms, the one in Olbia.
For goodness sake, M5S regional secretary Alessandro Solinas reiterated yesterday, "today is July 1st and no emergency room in Sardinia has closed . Since June 30th, the government has prevented the regions from procuring doctors previously provided by private cooperatives. But the region has addressed staff shortages, guaranteed services to citizens, and kept the emergency rooms open." It is in this regard that the center-right has something to object to.
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