The priorities of the moment, regarding the solutions to be adopted on the fate of Emergency roomand not only, of Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori Of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, are related to safeguarding the health of the communities of the Caudina valley, as well as absolute transparency towards the entire population. To reiterate, although on diametrically opposite positions, Guido Quicinational president of the federation Cimo Fesmed and head of the complex Epidemiology unit of the «Rummo“, And Domenico Parisimayor of Limatola and president Anci.
«You need to know whether – says Quici – you want the “little man” in the white coat in the emergency room of the Sant’Agata hospital, who is there and gets everyone to agree or whether you want a stable team of professionals who, at this time, it is impossible to find. In my opinion it is necessary for citizens to be informed about the safety of care in facilities capable of providing urgent services immediately. If a heart attack patient arrives at Sant’Alfonso, where there is no coronary unit, precious minutes are lost for the patient, as with all time-dependent pathologies.” Therefore, we must clear the field of misunderstandings to prevent the population, who is not aware of the real technical and logistical difficulties, from becoming the object of harmful speculation. «I have always expressed my position in this regard – continues President Cimo – and I cannot change it as there are no conditions to do so. Retracing all the activities implemented by the general manager Maria Morgante, I realized that, up until now, everything has been done to try to keep the Sant’Agata emergency room open 24 hours a day, albeit with great difficulty. However, it must be taken into account that hospital companies cannot exceed the maximum spending limit established for additional hours, because the management could have to answer to the Court of Auditors and financial damage could be incurred. Furthermore, given the current and demanding commitment of medical staff, it is also necessary to respect the maximum hours of services for each individual professional, which cannot exceed 48 hours per month, as per European regulations. In conclusion, if the Region has undertaken through decree 41/2019 to guarantee certain services, net of the contingent moment and the very serious shortage of personnel, the hope is that the Region will ensure structural interventions with a complete and adequate team, and not with stopgap interventions that only serve to postpone the problem. All this also in light of an uncertain future, linked to the adoption of essential performance levels (Lep), the result of an increasingly differentiated autonomy from region to region”.
It must be remembered that, in the past, Sant’Alfonso had been included in the black book of hospitals that had to be closed because they did not have 100 hospital beds. «We will continue to fight – highlights Domenico Parisi, mayor of Limatola and president of Anci – to guarantee citizens the restoration of all the activities necessary to keep the hospital of Sant’Agata up and running. The annexation of Sant’Alfonso to the “San Pio” hospital, which took place between 2017 and 2018, served to maintain the II level DEA which it would otherwise have lost because Rummo did not reach the number of beds necessary to maintain it. Now, we would not like that, since the city hospital, between the expansion of beds in some departments and the opening of new operating units, could alone reach the quorum to maintain the II level DEA and not be absorbed into the Avellino macro-area, our hospital would fall into oblivion. As I have always said, the time has come to adopt the language of clarity and an attitude of maximum transparency towards citizens.”
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