San Francesco di Nuoro: a dozen departments in crisis, patients in the corridors and 20-hour shifts a day for doctors
"Not even a fracture can be cured anymore", all the doubts about the Newsweek ranking cited yesterday by former councilor Arru in response to journalist Elvira Serra
Department of Medicine in Nuoro
In the San Francesco hospital there are more than a dozen departments in crisis. After the harsh statements of the new governor Alessandra Todde regarding the health situation in Sardinia and Nuoro, ASL prefers not to make statements, while the former regional health councilor, Luigi Arru, breaks his silence after the complaint by the journalist Elvira Serra and recalls that Nuoro is the only Sardinian hospital included in Newsweek's ranking of the 130 best in Italy.
The ranking
A fact that has left many people perplexed, including the Coordination of Sardinian public health committees and SVS travel for health: «In Nuoro it is no longer possible to treat even a fracture. President Todde has demonstrated profound understanding on the issue."
The doctors
Within a week Orthopedics was reduced to one doctor and one head doctor, making room service and hospitalizations impossible. «The staff is in total burnout, they work 20 hours a day - says the president of the Nuoro Medical Association, Maria Giobbe -. You have no right to life outside of hospital and to rest." The crisis is in all departments, from Endoscopy with a single doctor to Oncology with two doctors who are moving the chemotherapy to Olbia. Unused Infectious diseases, inadequate blood transfusion centre. In Diabetology, at Zonchello, due to a technical IT problem, since yesterday it has no longer been possible to renew or carry out new prescriptions. In the Medicine department, however, the patients are once again "housed" in the corridors, the addition of beds in the unused wing (reported by Serra) lasted just one day.
