«Patients in the corridor and “urgent” CT scans after three days»: the nightmare experience of a reporter at San Francesco in Nuoro

It is yet another story about the health drama in Sardinia that Elvira Serra , journalist from Corriere della Sera, reports on her Facebook profile.

The reporter, in transit at the San Francesco Hospital in Nuoro , recounted the difficult condition of the medical department and a misadventure experienced by her sister-in-law.

«I hadn't been to San Francesco for 15 years, when my father passed away - writes Serra - and the memory of those days hurt me. But it hurt me more to see that my fellow citizens are no longer guaranteed the right to health."

Then, attaching a series of photos, Serra adds: «One wing of the department is completely unused. Some rooms are used for clinics. The windows are taped shut for dressings. Some patients stay there for a few hours, waiting for a place to become available in the other wing, the one where the sick are housed promiscuously, the male rooms alternating with the female ones."

But it is when talking about the relative that the most critical issues emerge: «The less fortunate wait in the corridor. Among them, my sister-in-law."

The woman, admitted to hospital at dawn on Monday for acute pancreatitis, would have experienced a nightmare hospital stay: «She slept the first two nights in one of the famous clinics - adds Serra - waiting for the "urgent" CT scan that they did yesterday, after three days, also discovering pneumonia."

Serra then does not fail to list the difficulties experienced by patients, forced to sleep without adequate privacy, and the slalom of visitors among the stretchers and medicine trolleys . And for this reason he goes so far as to call for the resignation of the ASL 3 leaders (citing them one by one) for what he dubs "a failure for which there can be no alibi".

«I understand their discomfort and sense of helplessness in not being able to better manage the care of the sick. Their feelings are mine. But the consistent consequence is resignation. In the face of such a failure there can be no alibi" , he writes, quoting, among others, the head physician Salvatore Zaru.

Finally, on recent health policies, comes another thrust: «The San Francesco Hospital depends on the Sardinia Region. Which independently provides health coverage for its inhabitants, allocating almost half of the budget to the health sector, around 4 billion ", but - asks Serra, addressing the outgoing governor Solinas and the latest health councilors Nieddu and Doria - "where are finished in these years?” .

Hence the appeal to the new president Alessandra Todde : «He will win or lose his challenge regarding health», but Serra's hope is that as a native of Nuoro he can understand the "anger" of the patients of San Francesco.