Sassari Emergency rooms are the Achilles heel of Italian public health. And in Sardinia, as in other regions of the south, the health condition of the services is more dangerous. Some data for better understanding. Wait times in the emergency room were over three hours on the island for patients registered with a green code. 162 minutes in Abruzzo. The average rate is national 111 minutes for white and 1 codes47 for lock codes. 8.4% of Sardinians does not reach emergency within half an hour. The number of citizens is growing providing treatment.
The picture emerges from the study done by III Civic report on health by Cittadinanzattiva presented today, October 22, to the Ministry of Health.
The numbers 4500 less doctors and about 10 thousand nurses needed. “On the other hand, the trend in citizens’ access to emergency rooms is increasing again after the recession with the pandemic – the study continues -. The citizens of the north did both in 2019 and 2023 greater access, in total numbers, compared to those in the central south. The citizens of Veneto are the ones who achieve a very high number of accesses with a white code. Apart from Sardinia, it is also difficult for them to keep the time they spent at the PS Abruzzo (162 minutes) for green codes, and always Abruzzo (126) e Friuli Venezia Giulia (128) for white codes”.
The reports The most critical area of concern this year is hospital care in the third place by percentage of reports (13.3% of the total 24,043). In this area, the biggest problems, 82.1%, are found in emergency and emergency rooms. In particular, citizens report long waits on calls before contacting the operator, overcrowding in emergency rooms, long hours of waiting, disorganization in managing priorities and staff shortages”.
According to Cittadinanzattiva « it is clear that the lack of workers, the delay in the use of Pnrr funds and the pandemic that has just ended have almost reduced a very critical sector to “collapse”.
Provide treatment Sardinia, together with the Aosta Valley and the Bolzano region, is at the top of the list of regions in which the percentage of people giving medicine is growing. In 2023, health care services will fall by an average of 8%. But in regions such as Sardinia, peaks of -25% have been recorded. «The gap is very small in Lombardy and Tuscany (-2%), followed by Emilia Romagna (-3%), but in 14 Regions the percentages are higher than the national average with peaks. of -25% in Sardinia, -27% and -28% in Valle d’Aosta and in the province of Bolzano. It is above all with regard to the first times that the regional systems are struggling: these have decreased on average by 10%”
The critical times 5.8% of the population, approximately 3.4 million inhabitants, cannot reach an emergency service within half an hour. This percentage includes Sardinian citizens. The most critical situation concerns the population living in the interior areas of Basilicata (32.5%) followed by the area of Bolzano (9.16%) and Sardinia (8.44%).
Community houses According to the Cittadinanzattiva report «with the implementation of community homes, it is expected that the percentage of people who will not be able to reach an emergency room within 30 minutes will decrease to 964 thousand (1.6% of the population)», the completion of the study.
2024-10-22 11:51:00
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