Citizens dissatisfied with the length of waiting lists in health centers Sannio. People wait too long to carry out an initial specialist visit, specific diagnostic services and surgical interventions. According to the data Istatover 80% of users in the province of Benevento he rejects the waiting times necessary to provide healthcare services, compared to 88% of the rest of the national population. Almost all Italians are convinced that the government must intervene, investing more in healthcare, while there is a worsening of the indicator on trust in healthcare personnel, and in fact, 20.1% of citizens gave a rating from zero to five to doctors. The percentages of greatest dissatisfaction are highest precisely in Noon where reference is made to a degree of consensus between 24.2 and 26.6%.
AWAY
In the last two years, the flows of hospital emigration outside the region have returned to pre-Covid levels, which is equal to 8.3% and costs the Sannio health service a few million euros per year. Indeed, Campania, Basilicata, Calabria and Puglia they are the regions with greater outgoing flows not compensated by incoming flows. The often unmotivated mistrust in the validity of the services offered in the area represents the main reason for hospital migration in addition to the lack of staff. Many cancer patients in Sannio choose the «Twins» of Rome or Campobasso, which is an offshoot of the Capitoline hospital, to undergo particularly delicate operations, while for the replacement of heart valves and large blood vessels they go much further north.
However, socio-economic inequalities are also observed for mortality from oncological diseases in the adult population, with a disadvantage that increases with decreasing education. Inequalities are more marked in less educated males who have a 2.1% higher mortality than those with a higher level of culture, while the ratio drops to 1.4 among the female population. In 2021, the cancer mortality rate of the adult population in the age group between 20 and 64 years decreased compared to 2020 and is equal to 7.8 per 10,000 inhabitants, compared to 8% in 2020. health facilities in the area, with input from the Campania Region, are working to best equip hospitals and clinics and to find the staff necessary to manage the waiting lists but the task is quite difficult because the requests for diagnostic, outpatient and surgical services they represent a sea magnum in which it is difficult not to get lost.
THE TREND
In the first quarter of 2024, the balance of waiting lists at «Rummo» it is positive with regards to ordinary and day hospital admissions but the expectations for some outpatient and diagnostic services remain almost unchanged compared to the previous year. In practice, the lists continue to increase, given that bookings do not decrease but there is a greater speed in the disposal phase due to various factors. Despite the major measures and strategies implemented, discontent does not decrease. For ordinary hospitalizations, the longest times are attributable to urological services with 83 days of waiting, to the ENT department with 73 and to breast surgery with 55. The waiting times for Neurology dropped from 75 to 47, to a maximum of 48 those of Obstetrics and gynaecology, which started from 63. Furthermore, the times for Vascular Surgery have significantly shortened, starting from 82 at the beginning of 2023, and going from 32 last quarter to the current 27.
Generally speaking, the waits for scheduled hospitalizations have decreased for almost all branches, thanks to the reinstatement of the staff of anesthesiologists and doctors from other disciplines and the opening of many departments which, after a long period of stagnation, have started again to work at a rapid pace. However, the number of days needed to wait to undergo a bilateral mammogram has risen from 48 days needed in the last quarter of 2023 to 84, while the days it takes to perform a colonoscopy remain 133 (136 on the list) and 46 days for cardiology visits, with 177 people waiting.
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