«The Marino hospital, facing the sea, no longer for the sick, but for the administrative staff. The change of use, from healthcare to another, has been hovering in the regional political world for about ten years. Nobody wanted to save the prestigious hospital serving the whole of Sardinia, with its excellences such as hand surgery and the hyperbaric chamber ." This was reported in a press release by Claudia Zuncheddu, doctor, spokesperson for the Sardinian Network - Public Health Defense.

« The state of abandonment of the hospital, without any ordinary maintenance, had long been a harbinger of closure . A dismantling also facilitated by the blocking of turnover and reduction of healthcare personnel. The pandemic then was manna from heaven. The Marino", underlines Claudia Zuncheddu, "becomes in effect the second Covid hospital for Cagliari and southern Sardinia. The orthopedic clinic moved to the University Hospital and the trauma patients moved partly to the Brotzu and partly to the Polyclinic. Hospital facilities in turn at risk of implosion due to overloading of services and lack of staff ."

" The hyperbaric chamber that covered urgent emergencies throughout Sardinia 24 hours a day, with excellent professionals from Orthopedics to Emergency Surgery, is now an abandoned island in the healthcare desert ", reports the spokesperson of the Sardinian Network - Defense of Public Health. "The impact on patients is very serious throughout the island."

«After the dismantling, the mystery surrounding the recent renovation works on the Marino is soon revealed. The recent inauguration of the Pain Therapy Centre, transferred from Binaghi to the new emergency room in Marino, appears to be a health cover for other uses of the hospital. We would not want", adds Claudia Zuncheddu, "for the financial resources provided for by the PNRR for health to be used in the renovation of hospitals that were knowingly dismantled, not to be returned to the sick. The three floors of the orthopedics and hand surgery of the Marino hospital, finely renovated with a view of the sea, do not house patients and healthcare personnel, but the administrators, from the General Director to his staff. This is how hospitals don't close but are transformed. An anomaly to be checked ."

THE REPLY – The reply from the Local Health Authority arrived on the subject during the day, with the general director Marcello Tidore explaining how it is, in reality, "a renovation of the building which involves the use of the floors which cannot be used for activities health in terms of organizational efficiency , because they are too small or not equipped with the necessary emergency exits, also taking into account the area in which the facility is located, which is very delicate from a landscape point of view".

" It would not have been possible to set up healthcare activities - continues the director - and, therefore, rather than renting an asset using citizens' resources in a non-compliant manner, it was decided to allocate the headquarters of the Cagliari Local Health Authority to the Marino hospital " . «It is good to remember – continues Tidore – that the historic headquarters of ASL n. 8 was attributed by the regional council to the company that serves the Sardinian local health authorities, i.e. ARES, and therefore it was necessary to find a solution quickly. Temporarily the ASL had established its headquarters at the Cittadella della Salute in the PAD. H which the previous ATS commissioner had attributed to the Anti-Tasting Unit of the Carabinieri who then requested the premises back".

« The cheapest and most efficient choice was therefore to identify the floors that could not be used efficiently for healthcare activities with a gracious renovation , but done economically - adds Tidore -. So much so that the cost of renovation is immensely lower than the rental cost of the same square meters for administrative activity. Only 18% of the total surface area of the hospital was in fact allocated to administrative activities to support healthcare activities through extraordinary maintenance, without however changing the main intended use of the building for healthcare activities. The hospital already has funding and tenders are underway for the construction of the works for the refunctionalization of the OP, including the renovation of the facade, of the part in front of the hospital, the creation of 40 community hospital beds (intervention financed with PNRR funds), specialist medical clinics, a surgery facility for the city of Cagliari, Pain Therapy, the hyperbaric chamber, Marine Radiology which actually sees an increase in activities of 140%. The Plastic Surgery clinics, the PICC Nursing Centre, Physiatry and Rehabilitation are currently operational."

(Unioneonline)

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