Battipaglia, shuttle ambulance: 60 meters for the CT scan

Sixty meters. It is the distance that separates the access to the hospital emergency room Holy Mary of Hope Of Battipaglia from the stall occupied by the now well-known “tac-mobile”, an expression coined to define the computerised tomography device which was placed on board a truck at the foot of the garrison of via Fiorignano to allow radiologists to subject patients to laboratory tests while waiting for the activation of the long-awaited fixed machine, subject to the adaptation of the premises that will have to house it.

The expedient

The news of the last week, which is causing much discussion among the experts, is that the municipal territory of Bridgecagnano Faiano lost a territorial ambulance, the one composed exclusively of a driver and rescuer, because the vehicle was diverted to the foot of Santa Maria della Speranza with one objective: to take the patients taken care of by the doctors of the Battipaglia hospital to the tac-mobile, 60 meters away, in a parking lot located in an area belonging to the hospital, more or less in the vicinity of the clinic. Sixty meters which, to tell the truth, frequently become more. Because the “tac-mobile”, in fact, does not yet seem to be functional to the 100 percent: in the last two days, apparently due to prolonged problems with the generator, it has been necessary to take the patients to the Radiology of the hospital Our Lady of Sorrows Of Eboli.

+++THE FULL ARTICLE IN TODAY’S EDITION OF THE PAPER NEWSPAPER+++