The government challenges the regional law 11. Solinas: "The extension of contracts in health care is fully legitimate"

The government has decided to challenge the Sardinian regional law approved unanimously on 30 June last and which allocates twenty million euros for the extension to 31 December of the personnel (health and administrative) recruited for the Covid emergency, in addition to six million for the extension of the doctors of the Usca.

But, as Governor Christian Solinas points out in a note, "the resources allocated to avoid wasting those precious professional skills, which made a fundamental contribution when Covid was a threat, are not at risk". Therefore, "the doctors and operators currently in service, whose contracts have been extended until the end of the year, will continue their indispensable activity".

The Council of Ministers has raised exceptions that exclusively concern paragraph 2 of article 2 of the law, an extraordinary measure promoted by the Region of Sardinia with the aim of breaking down waiting lists and recovering all the services left behind. due to Covid and thus uniformly guarantee the essential levels of assistance throughout the territory and which, according to Rome, would exceed the spending limits provided for by the "spending review". But the Region opposes this exception and, Solinas announces, "will defend its positions before the constitutional judges". “The Government - he explains - does not seem to take into account the specificity of our Island. Since 2007 the Region has provided with its own resources to finance the regional health service, and in this sense the Constitutional Court has already expressed itself several times, recognizing that the State is not entitled to dictate financial coordination rules that define the methods of containing an expense. healthcare entirely supported by others, nor to impose constraints on the territorial autonomies that bear the entire cost of healthcare ".

Mario Nieddu, councilor for health, also specifies: "The autonomy of our island is a fundamental principle and it is even more so if its protection means defending the health of citizens".

(Unioneonline / ss)