In Sardinia as Health Councilor for a while longer. Maybe a month, maybe less. Armando Bartolazzi will return to his job. He's certain that without him, Sardinia's healthcare system won't improve, given that he'll be leaving "after all the important things he's accomplished," such as "the oncology network with four world-class oncologists, including the director of the IEO, who is president of ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology)." In short, the island "is missing out on a great opportunity."
Why doesn't he stay and be an assessor?
What I know is that the conditions are no longer there. This regional healthcare system is the result of thirty years of divisions. It needed someone from outside, someone who is outside the mainstream. Sardinian healthcare is twenty-five years behind schedule. I recently read an article about the Da Vinci system coming to Sassari. But the Da Vinci has existed since 1999. It's an obsolete system. We need to embrace the idea that healthcare must be a guarantee for people, and that it must be cross-cutting. Since I've been in Sardinia, we've treated SMA with molecular therapy, now we're starting with innovative therapy for thalassemia, and CAR-T.
Excuse me, but then why will Alessandra Todde give you up? Because she said she wants to put her face on the line?
"There's a lot being said, the problem is that if this situation goes ahead like this... for goodness sake, positions will be redistributed, which is what politicians always do, but basically people will come out to seek treatment. You won't be doing the IRCCS program again. Only Sardinia and Calabria don't have an IRCCS. I was in charge of all 46 IRCCSs in Italy in 2018 and 2019. I know all the steps. But I'm leaving the scene: it means the island will never again have the opportunity to establish a scientific hospital and treatment center, not even in thirty years. An opportunity has been missed."
Which the governor is giving up.
"These are calculations that he will later settle with politics, I don't know what to say."
