Sardinia without general practitioners, Bartolazzi's recipe: «Specializations on the island»
The new health manager meets the unions: «My idea to attract newly trained young people». And he says he is confident about the commissioner hypothesisThe shortage of general practitioners has now been a critical issue in Sardinia for years, but how can we bring them back to the territories? For the new Health Councilor, Armando Bartolazzi, the solution is to make Sardinia more attractive.
How? «I developed my idea: I thought, for example, of initially acting on general practitioners, taking advantage of regional autonomy, allowing them to access specialization schools outside the stock exchange, i.e. to additional places », explains the councilor who this afternoon he met the trade union associations of general practitioners in the department's offices to present his proposal to them and take stock of the critical issues in the sector.
«This is an idea that would allow general practitioners, clearly the youngest, 32-35 years old, newly trained, to be able to specialize, something which is currently precluded on the continent – explains the councilor – what is the proposal? It is to offer these young colleagues the opportunity to specialize in Sardinia , provided that there is a commitment on their part to work in the area for at least 4-5 years or in any case for the entire duration of the specialization course ."
A solution which, according to the member of the Todde Council «would not only contribute to resolving the shortage of doctors in general medicine , but would also reduce waiting lists, because patients who need, for example, a cardiological visit or an electro cardiogram they should not go to the hospital, but to their doctor."
The councilor, compared to the alarmist tones of recent days, seems convinced that the Sardinian national health administration can be avoided : «Yesterday there was a meeting where we brought together the accounting managers of Ares and those of the ASL. The data requested by the Mef are there, they still need to be tabulated and processed. We will certainly not be able to bring definitive data for May 28th, where there was the third recall from the MEF, but probably with an extension of a couple of weeks we will be able to at least close the financial statements for 2022".
