«The construction of new hospitals is a commitment that we have made with the Sardinians since 2019 , even before the vote, and it was appreciated by the voters who gave us the mandate to create more modern and efficient structures. Since then we have governed Sardinia going through an epochal and dramatic event such as the pandemic that took two and a half years away from this legislature. However, Covid has not canceled the promise made to the Sardinians ».

Thus the governor Christian Solinas , in response to the political controversies triggered by the decision of the Council to proceed with the realization of the technical and economic feasibility study for the construction of four new hospitals, in Sassari, Alghero, Cagliari and in the Sulcis Iglesiente area.

«Today some of the most important hospitals on the island – underlines the president of the Region – are housed in structures over fifty years old, often dilapidated, in buildings that develop vertically in an outdated concept . All this while in the last 15 years Cagliari, for example, has lost 3 hospitals. We need modern structures, with a horizontal development that allows for a more rational and performing organization of services and routes, with standards that can never be achieved under current conditions. Our healthcare system also needs new hospitals to optimize economic and professional resources which would thus have the possibility of being allocated more efficiently in a historical moment in which all of Italy has to deal with the shortage of doctors and staff of the health sector".

«It is unthinkable – declares the President – that today there could be someone willing to put a stop to all this. We have identified the necessary resources, over 1.5 billion euros, the result of a negotiation with the Government that I have carried out over the years . Saying "no" to the construction of new hospitals would mean leaving Sardinia and the Sardinians behind, while the world races forward. The exploitation that is being done on this very delicate issue, in order to drag the discourse to the level of political confrontation as an end in itself, is of little use to the community, as are the many untrue statements that continue to be repeated".

«Building the new hospitals – continues Solinas – certainly does not mean abandoning the old structures. These will be kept in perfect working order until the opening of the new ones . Only then, when all the staff and patients will be in the new hospitals, will the redevelopment and re-functionalization of the old hospitals be carried out to be allocated to new health, social welfare and administrative services. This choice will make it possible to avoid the enormous inconvenience of opening construction sites with hospitalized patients and with the need to reduce or close the operations of entire departments in turn. Thinking and arguing that intervening on old structures, renouncing the creation of new ones, can be a guarantee for the future of our health system is a contradiction in terms ».

«The smokescreen raised on the Brotzu to fuel confusion and fears – underlines the governor – is the emblem of this short circuit. The technological platform we are talking about is a new building for which currently there is not even an approved executive design, nor a building permit, and which will impact on internal spaces already heavily sacrificed, with further critical issues on the internal roads, parking lots and on the overall logistics of the plexus, even distant from the same surface as the air ambulance. Beyond the perplexities that the plate can generate in the face of a significant cost, the reality is that this intervention will not redevelop even one square meter of the old hospital, nor will one euro of the investments planned for this purpose go to improve the old structure on which today there are the most serious problems». Again, continues the governor, "in order to poison the climate , the new stadium has come to contrast with the new public hospital of excellence with 1,000 beds , which would merge Brotzu and Businco, giving Sardinians the best of technology and treatments with a regional reference oncological center, a pediatric center and the most important highly specialized center (second level DEA) on the island. Well, - concludes Solinas - there is no opposition between the stadium and the new hospitals and clarity is an obligation to prevent the continuation of exploitation that harms everyone and does not respond to the interests of the citizens".

(Unioneonline/lf)

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