Bounced from one hospital to another, she waits to be operated on for a broken femur. But between collapsed departments, doctors' strikes and postponements, a 78-year-old woman has been waiting for over ten days. And she doesn't know when and if she will undergo an operation that, by protocol, should be performed within 48 hours of the accident.

It is a story of ordinary medical malpractice in a system that no longer works that GC, a seventy-eight-year-old from Selargius, suffered: her ordeal began when she tripped on a step in a public facility.

An ambulance had taken her to the emergency room of the Santissima Trinità. First problem: she was told that the machines for performing x-rays were not working. So here is the transfer to the Policlinico, which together with the Brotzu receives all the emergencies of a vast territory, due to the closure of all the territorial structures.

At Duilio Casula the x-ray is done after another 10 hours of waiting. And the fracture is found. But the woman finds herself forced on a stretcher for another two days in the corridor: assisted by the staff who do somersaults, but without the possibility of being transferred to the ward, because it is saturated.

"They don't know when they'll be able to operate on her, a chain of doctors and surgeons," says a relative, "after 9 nights they tell her they'll operate on October 31st." That is, yesterday. "They take her to the operating room and leave her waiting for 12 hours without eating, only to find out that the doctor is on strike."

Then she is ordered to return to the ward, "and they tell her that November 1st is a holiday and they can't operate on her, the 2nd and 3rd are weekends, so the operation will be postponed to Monday, November 4th." Maybe.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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