Four Sardinian emergency rooms at risk of closure . This is the alarm raised by the FdI group leader in the Regional Council Paolo Truzzu , who addresses councilor Bartolazzi asking him how real the risk is that the centers of Nuoro, Oristano, San Gavino and Carbonia will close.
«Due to the serious shortage of medical, nursing and socio-health personnel, the emergency system is in great difficulty», prefaces Truzzu, who underlines how the closure of the traumatology and orthopedic departments «puts at risk the opening of the emergency rooms of the Island during the summer".
Access to emergency rooms, underlines the former mayor of Cagliari, has increased "vertiginously" in recent months, with a consequent 20% increase in waiting times. This "probably due to the reduced filter of local structures due to a worrying shortage of general practitioners".
A structural problem that risks exploding in the summer, with the mass arrival of tourists. «In many peripheral emergency rooms on the island it will be impossible to guarantee shifts, inevitably having to allow medical and healthcare staff in general to enjoy their holidays . This will lead to the inevitable closure and increase in the workload on the facilities of the metropolitan areas , already suffering, precisely in the period in which the population in Sardinia is doubling. All this risks translating not only into the impossibility of guaranteeing patients compliance with the essential levels of assistance, but also into inevitable damage to the image of Sardinia, with the risk of compromising the tourist season".
Hence the question to councilor Bartolazzi : «We ask to know how concrete the risk of closing the emergency rooms in Nuoro, Oristano, San Gavino and Carbonia is, to know the actions that will be undertaken to avoid such a disaster and to equip the hospital departments with new medical and paramedical staff".
(Unioneonline)
