Pentastellata battle: "The blood transfusion center of Tempio is not touched"

The battle of the M5S to defend the health facilities in the Sardinian territories continues. And now the initiative of the five-star group leader in the regional council Roberto Li Gioi focuses on the transfusion center of the Paolo Dettori hospital in Tempio .

“Since last July it has started to suspend its activity, it is moving towards the definitive closure. There is still no official news on the matter and probably there will not be in the months to come, but the sunset of the transfusion center is connected to the latest decisions of the ASL 2 of Gallura which, to the request of Ares for the presentation of the needs of the medical staff to be included the staff did not consider it necessary to indicate the two doctors of transfusion medicine for the Tempio Pausania hospital. "And again: " This lack of communication by the Asl Gallura certifies the political will not to reopen the hospital blood collection center. A fundamental center for the upper Gallura and the lower Coghinas valley which collected an average of 1,200 bags of blood per year . By Tuesday 8 November, ASL 2 should have sent Ares the detailed list with the number of doctors to be assigned to the various wards of Gallura hospitals, on the basis of which to prepare the competition notices, but the box relating to transfusion medicine remained empty ".

And he concludes: "In the summer period in Gallura, when the presence in the area increases dramatically, it is essential to have more active hospital transfusion centers that allow immediate response to the needs of the emergency room. Just consider that to keep an emergency room open it is It was necessary to have a reserve of blood bags equal to five, and that in Tempio it happened that there was only one bag of blood available ".

Li Gioi then launches an appeal: "What has happened shows that the operation of the transfusion center is absolutely essential and that, on the contrary, closing it definitively is equivalent to putting the health of Gallura citizens at risk".