"The use of so-called 'pay-as-you-go doctors' arises from a need, hopefully temporary and short-lived, generated by a structural problem of the island's health system. Therefore, it cannot and must not be considered a solution forever, but rather an immediate and useful response exclusively to guarantee the service in the Emergency Departments. The distortion of the remuneration in favor of the 'rented' doctors compared to those regularly employed , denounced by the President of the Order of Cagliari, poses a further problem that could be solved , as long as the 'pay-as-you-go' doctors are used, by equalizing the remuneration with a flat-rate allowance for the doctors already in service in the Emergency Departments, so as to equalize the remuneration. The resources are there and, if they were not there, it is the task of politics to find them. We must re-establish pay equity and above all limit the flight from the public to the private sector". This is how Paolo Truzzu and Corrado Meloni , group leader and regional councilor of Fratelli d'Italia, commented on the statements of Emilio Montaldo, president of the Cagliari Medical Association, on the topic of the 'active medical service on call'.

" The urgency is to guarantee the service and manage the shortage of doctors in the Emergency Rooms . But to definitively resolve the problem, and avoid serious situations like that of the Isili Emergency Room closed for almost the entire month of August, structural interventions are necessary", added Meloni.

“We hope that the Regional Council, and in particular Councilor Bartolazzi, will overcome the moment of confusion and, between one appointment and another, will be able to deal with the concrete problems of healthcare so as to guarantee the citizens' right to health,” concluded Truzzu.

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