Endless waits for exams and few staff in emergency rooms: alarm on the island

Endless waits for a view and endless waits in emergency rooms. The problems that afflict Sardinian healthcare remain under the spotlight of regional and also national politics.

The Government, through the Minister of Health Schillaci, is preparing a decree to reduce waiting lists, while the regional councilor Bartolazzi will be heard tomorrow in the Health commission of the regional council. A meeting with proposals and strategies at the center to give birth to a strategic plan to take action.

But the waiting lists (107 days for a cardiology visit, for example) are not the only issue: from the emergency departments, in fact, another alarm comes in view of the summer: «Too many patients and few doctors."

The articles by Piera Serusi and Cristina Cossu and the full table of waiting times on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands, on the app and in the digital edition