The department stops the new hospitals in Sardinia: there is a risk of spending for nothing

If everyone stops, there is a risk of financial damage. «The entities in question are invited to temporarily suspend the implementation of the resolution in question». And "in question" is the provision of the regional council led by Christian Solinas, approved on 23 February (two days before the elections), which took note of the feasibility studies of the new hospitals in Sardinia and told Ares, Aou of Sassari and ASL of Sassari to proceed with the process that would lead to the design.

The communication that stops the gigantic plan (estimated cost of two billion euros, with just under 800 million declared available at the moment), which bears the date of March 12, is signed by the general director of the Health Department Francesca Piras. If it is not the tombstone on the new hospitals of Cagliari, Sassari, Alghero and Sulcis Iglesiente, we are close.

The reason for the block is simple. The Solinas council is on its last legs, barring political entanglements, the one led by the new president Alessandra Todde will soon take office. «It is common knowledge», writes the DG, «that the resolution» on the new hospitals «could be the subject of review by the new political management bodies being established». Thus "as a precaution to the treasury, in order to avoid expenditure provisions or assumption of obligations towards third parties, which could prove fruitlessly undertaken in the short term" it is better not to take the resolution into consideration.

The document infuriates the outgoing president of the regional council, the Northern League member Michele Pais, who was focusing a lot on the Alghero hospital: «I am shocked and disconcerted. Leaving aside the aspects of opportunity and administrative legitimacy of the act", he attacks, "it is a very serious and harmful fact in relation to which I hope that the entire united political class, of the right and left, can find unity and take a position in defense of public health which, especially in the north-west of Sardinia, has always claimed the right to have new and efficient healthcare structures that overcome the difficulties of the current ones, which are completely unsuitable and not up to the standard of medical care for the next 50 years, also and above all in consideration of the increasingly small number of medical-health personnel".