After the Crenos report presented yesterday, in which Sardinia's position emerged as a region in which 18 percent of residents give up treatment , the regional health councilor Carlo Doria intervenes: «2021 was not just any year for the health of the island, just as 2020 was not and this applies to the entire national health system and in general to the entire planet. Perhaps someone will have forgotten it, but in 2021 we were still living in a state of emergency in which the trend of the epidemiological curve not only affected our personal freedom, following the virus containment measures, with the colors of the Regions and the consequent lockdowns , but also the whole machine of care and assistance dramatically focused on Covid-19 ». « The pandemic - continues the exponent of the Giunta Solinas - has completely turned our health system upside down : we have had entire hospital wards if not, in some cases, entire hospitals reorganized and converted to assist patients affected by Covid. The same measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus have led to a tightening of access to health facilities, where, on the one hand, emergency activity has remained guaranteed, on the other, the fight against Covid has led to an enormous compression of all other outpatient clinical activities, including cancer screenings, probably one of the most serious side effects of the pandemic, destined to have repercussions over time".

Doria then points the finger at the Crenos investigation : "It highlights aspects that cannot be decontextualized from the period under consideration, i.e. 2021, unless you want to carry out an enormous propaganda work, wanting to tell a "reality" very far from the true and incontrovertible fact . Talking about the renunciation of treatment on the island by one patient out of five at a time when the health system itself was "in check" and oriented towards the management of the pandemic emergency cannot represent a correct reading. Today's health problems are to be found in the wrong choices and in the lack of national and regional planning that date back at least fifteen years ».

And again: « Professor Paci, scientific referent of the Crenos report , and former councilor of the Giunta Pigliaru, in declaring that "the population is giving up medical treatment", by not referring in the least to a context which is instead decisive, betrays the intention of politically exploiting the issues by those who instead have the great responsibility of having failed to abolish the spending ceiling imposed by the spending review, instead removed in all the other regions with special status that pay for their own health care ", underlines the assessor.

"Regarding the waiting times for services - Doria says - if it is correct to say that the pandemic has had a decisive impact on this front, it is equally true that since the end of the emergency, in March 2022, our health system has started to catch up . Even the comparison of the average times between the month of April 2018 and the same period of 2023 shows us a significant improvement on most of the 64 services that constitute an indicator for waiting times. To give an example, the 2023 regional data on breast mammograms marks 19 days if bilateral or 37 if unilateral, in April 2018 the time required to access the same service was on average 90 days. Today we see the worsening of performance in services where there is only one specialization school left on the island, an aspect that has led the Region to commit itself personally to specialist training with new investments".

« Even the data on mortality for 2022 must be read from a statistical point of view : in an area which, unfortunately, records a demographic data in which the population is increasingly elderly, with one of the highest number of centenarians in Italy and where births are less and less, the numbers are not surprising. In fact, simple statistics teach us that the probability of death is greater in an older population such as the Sardinian one compared to a younger one and that the Sardinian population today is on average older than five years ago, also due to the aforementioned drop in the birth rate, increasing by significantly increased the statistical probability of an increase in deaths», concludes councilor Doria.

(Unioneonline/ss)

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