The Sardinian 118 rescuers: "We are exhausted, without stretchers and with very long waiting times in the emergency room"

Emergency and risk of paralysis for the emergency rooms of Sardinia, yet another alarm cry from associations and cooperatives of 118 rescuers, heard today in the Health Commission of the Regional Council.

"We are left to ourselves", explained Pier Paolo Pintus, representative of the National Association for Rescue Action (Anas) which on the island includes 13 voluntary organizations, with 400 volunteers and rescuers, who work 24 hours a day and 7 days. on 7.

There are many critical issues listed: "There are no stretchers, aids for ambulances such as spinal boards, cervical collars, splints, spoon stretchers". Then there is the problem of "very long pre-triage waiting times", for Pintus a "fundamental critical point".

"If in the precovid period the delays were mainly due to the lack of stretchers and aids - he explains -, since the advent of the pandemic the situation has worsened due to the overcrowding of the emergency rooms, the insufficiency of personnel assigned to triage, the waiting in the ambulance ".

The association asked to adapt the organic plants of the emergency rooms, to provide the emergency departments with a greater number of stretchers and sedan chairs. Furthermore, in the event of prolonged stops, patients are asked to “be taken care of by Oss from the Emergency Department for all hygienic-sanitary needs that may arise”.

(Unioneonline / L)