Large devices not used in the hospital? The Local Health Authority responds to Agenas – Aostasera data

From the columns of the Corriere della Sera the alarm is raiseddisobedience of health care equipment in Italy. With a convenient diagram of the percentage of devices that are not obsolete which relates to the areas.

A scheme in which – according to the newspaper, which cites Agenas data as 31 December 2023 – the Glen Aosta would be, alone with separation with Molise, the 100 percent of tools have disappeared in the public health sector. On the certified private level, however, the numbers speak of 67 percent (compared to 83 in Molise). For a total equal to83 percent between public and private.

Before “bursting the bubble”, theLocal Health Authority he takes pen and paper and explains how it is “necessary to provide an important clarification on the situation of Glen Aosta both in relation to the data updated on 31 December 2023 (to which the article refers ), and regarding the position today“.

“It’s obvious it’s there total difference between the data reported in the journalistic study and the real situation – says the director general of the USL Massimo Uberti -. This may be due to an urgent matter in the Committee get updated data. We go deeper. Thanks to the regional funds allocated by the Department of Health, our technological park of the so-called ‘big equipment’ it is mostly updated and for a small part being updated“.

The health authority answers the numbers with numbers: “So far – again Uberti – only 25 percent of large equipment, ie 3, is more than 10 years old. This is an impressive percentage, perhaps the best among Italian regions. Soon, 100 percent of the park will be renovated since the renewal procedures for the three oldest pieces of equipment already started“.

As for the end of 2023 – the date the data will stop mentioned in the Corriere piece – “six out of 12 devices were no more than five years old – adds the General Director -. I also want to emphasize that we are one of the few health care companies that we have the funding provided by the Pnrr has already been used and reported in full for major technological upgrades”.

Not only that: “The new equipment we’ve recently fitted, I think Pet (useful in detecting and treating different types of cancer) e to the Gamma cameraI am among the most advanced on the market and present in very few centers in Italy – Uberti closes again -. They promise a significant improvement in the quality and speed of the tests, as well as offering more comfort for patients, helping to increase the level of healthcare provided to the citizens of Glen Aosta and beyond (active mobility is very high)”.

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