18.3% of Sardinians give up treatment: "Economic reasons and endless waiting lists"

Almost one in five Sardinians give up treatment for economic reasons or because they are exhausted by the endless waiting lists .

To be precise , 18.3% , according to the data relating to 2021 and provided by the Salutequità association in the dossier on missed treatments: numbers in sharp increase over the years, a + 6% is recorded compared to 2019 .

“Now even neutral observers confirm what the Fnp Cisl has been denouncing for years”, says the general secretary of the union Alberto Farina. But " the Region and its political leaders are slow in responding to the protests that arise from all over Sardinia to solicit urgent interventions on the regional health system".

Most of these "renouncers", explains Fnp, "is made up of pensioners , a category that combines the conditions that force them to leave private clinics: they have a higher number of pathologies and have an income that cannot support specialist visits who have a cost almost always more than 100 euros " .

Poverty often manifests itself also with the renunciation of pharmacological treatments "because they are expensive, a systematic and continuous monthly bloodletting that erodes pensions, not just social ones".

Hence the appeal of the trade union initials to councilor Nieddu and to president Solinas so that "they face and solve the health emergency, which for pensioners will become even more dramatic due to energy costs, which have lightened the purse of the spending and also forced the over 65s to a diet this time unhealthy ”.

(Unioneonline / L)