Councilor Doria: "The radiotherapy department of Businco will not close"

The radiotherapy department of the Businco cancer hospital in Cagliari will not close and has never closed. This is the clarification that comes from the regional health councilor, Carlo Doria, during a press conference after the summit with the heads of Arnas Brotzu, Asl of Nuoro, Aou of Sassari and Mater Olbia.

Doria also explained that the sessions for breast and prostate cancer patients, in particular, will continue, albeit with some discomfort, in numbers almost equal to the current ones and in the future the advantage will be better performance in terms of quality and a reduction of waiting lists.

"The machines are obsolete, they often stop and need extraordinary interventions, we have known this problem for a long time - the commissioner clarified - and this is why the replacement and maintenance intervention on the machinery has been defined". «The intervention involves the replacement of the machinery (there are currently three in operation), four of which have been purchased with Cipe, Pnrr funding as well as the regional one - added the general manager of Arnas Brotzu Agnese Foddis - they are very advanced machinery which they will allow double performances compared to the current ones». Meanwhile "an effort has been made to try to minimize the inconvenience," explained Foddis.

The emergency solutions put in place envisage the use «Until 2 July», the emergency solutions envisage, «the three machines will be used, afterwards two machines will always be in operation, from 15 October the new machine will arrive and will alternate with the one old". Furthermore, the hours of the sessions will be extended until 11pm and on Saturday mornings for the so-called "flash" performances.

"If we currently guarantee 120/130 services per day, in this transitional phase we will ensure 90 plus extra hours and we arrive at around 120", highlighted Foddis. "The goal is to maintain all the treatments at Businco in recent months - concluded Doria - but we will implement every possible solution to strengthen the other services present in Sardinia to support the hospital in Cagliari, the regional reference center for oncology".

(Unioneonline/ss)