An extraordinary hiring plan for Sardinia's healthcare system . The Regional Council today approved a resolution mandating ARES to announce a competition for the recruitment of 1,500 professionals for the island's healthcare system: 500 doctors and 1,000 nurses to be recruited on permanent contracts through competitive examinations and mobility procedures outside the region.

The government hopes this measure will resolve the chronic staffing shortage that is bringing hospitals and emergency rooms to their knees, especially as the contracts of paid staff expire.

The measure, explains the Region, is part of the path envisaged by the ministerial decree which introduces community homes and hospitals, and aims to guarantee staff for these new structures as well as for the hospital network and emergency services .

"Community homes and hospitals will not divert resources from hospitals; they will send a strong signal of new services and new additions," explains interim president and councilor Alessandra Todde , emphasizing that this resolution "unequivocally" represents the majority's desire to strengthen Sardinia's healthcare system. " We don't want to shift deficiencies from one part of the system to another, but rather strengthen it as a whole . An intervention of this magnitude has been lacking in Sardinia for some time."

The hiring also aims to strengthen community-based medicine, reducing pressure on hospitals. By strengthening the presence of specialists, the Region explains, "we also want to address waiting lists."

Alongside this plan, a further measure has been implemented to address the difficulties of finding staff domestically. A recruitment process will be launched to recruit 450 professionals from abroad: 200 doctors, 200 nurses, and 50 medical radiology technicians. They will be hired on two-year fixed-term contracts (2027-2028, with the possibility of future permanent contracts) and will be assigned primarily to local facilities in the most critical areas and to the emergency rooms identified by the measure.

International recruitment is an exceptional tool, complementary to the procedures managed by Ares, and necessary to immediately address staff shortages, particularly in certain disciplines and in less attractive areas.

In essence, Todde concludes, we're talking about the addition of nearly 2,000 professionals who "could radically change Sardinian healthcare." The problem now is finding them.

(Unioneonline/L)

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