Cagliari, emergency room in difficulty: ambulances blocked since morning and endless waits
A difficult afternoon of passion for patients, 118 operators and hospital employeesLe ambulanze in attesa da questa mattina a Is Mirrionis e al Policlinico
Promoted for hospitalization times from the moment of first access, said the Health Councilor, Armando Bartolazzi. But the Emergency Rooms of the hospitals of Cagliari continue to struggle and the patients suffer waiting times, the real ones, that every day risk causing the emergency-urgency system to collapse.
Only a few days ago there was a phase in which in the most important city of Sardinia there were no ambulances available to intervene in case of requests for help: a transitory dysfunction, which was resolved by the 118 operations center and the dedication of the staff. But it is a problem, enormous, that risks repeating itself: just a grain of sand and the whole mechanism jams.
Today there are at least five ambulances stopped since this morning in the forecourt of the Emergency Room of the Santissima Trinità. At the Policlinico the same problem. At Brotzu the situation was similar, but around 3:30 pm the green light was given for the “sbarellamento”: this means that the patients are taken in charge by the hospital and the stretchers, in fact, are returned to the availability of the ambulance operators.
This does not mean that the wait is over for those who are sick. Just consult the monitoring system of the Health Department.
Santissima Trinità emergency room, shortly before 5:00 p.m.: 11 orange codes visiting and six waiting. Eleven patients in blue code, as many white. And there are also two serious cases that have taken over.
At Brotzu, the patients not in danger of life but serious, waiting, are still eleven, but others are arriving on board ambulances. The least serious, between blue, white and green, are 29.
Duilio Casula overloaded: 22 yellow codes, with the reds continuing to arrive. In the meantime, they are waiting for another 26.
The problem is always the same: there are not enough beds in the hospitals and any necessary hospitalizations cannot be carried out. Patients remain on stretchers and 118 operators are forced to wait outside, in the yards, for someone to become free. All because there are no more filters in the territory and everyone is forced to go to the emergency rooms.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)