The CT scan, awaited for over six years, has finally become a reality at the “Caracciolo” in Agnone. It remains to be understood immediately who will have to make it work, but evidently this is not a second step, which however should not be overlooked.
Yesterday was an “important day”, as underlined by the general director of Asrem himself, Giovanni Di Santo, for the hospital in the particularly disadvantaged area of Agnone. The promises of politics and the healthcare company have materialized, albeit with a guilty multi-year delay. Like a sleepy pachyderm, Molise healthcare promises today and delivers in six years. Meanwhile, the population is decreasing and those who remain are turning elsewhere to find healthcare worthy of the name. Returning to yesterday’s good news, the 128-slice CT scan has finally been delivered, complete with regional councilors and journalists, governor Roberti and, naturally, the top management of the healthcare company present. A commercial worthy of the Istituto Luce. «An undoubtedly important day – Di Santo declared to reporters and in favor of cameras – because we are inaugurating an innovative diagnostic methodology, in line with the times: a 128-slice CT scan equipped with a reduction in the quantity of radiation and for this reason usable even by children. A CT scan that can also support weights exceeding two hundred kilograms, therefore suitable for obese patients. In short, a CT scan in step with the times which will serve to guarantee the recovery and streamlining of waiting lists on a regional basis and also active mobility towards Agnone and Molise”. About the specialized personnel capable of operating the new diagnostic machinery, the general director was not too clear: «In the meantime, we are redesigning the Molise healthcare system with a particular focus and attention on the border areas. And Agnone will certainly be valorised to the maximum, trying to bring specialists here in such a way as to guarantee a ceiling of varied healthcare offerings, also due to the need to avoid patients fleeing to other regions”. In short, nothing concrete as regards radiologists, technicians and staff capable of making the new CT scan work here at the “Caracciolo”. A problem, that of the lack of specialized personnel, which the Asrem CEO evidently plans to circumvent and overcome by resorting to technology and telemedicine in particular. «We are preparing this issue of tele-reporting, – confirmed Di Santo – and that is the possibility of carrying out on-site investigations, which will be read and analyzed at any time in other hospitals in Molise, from Termoli to Campobasso, but also Isernia, in a way such as to immediately guarantee remote reading by the specialist. Even for patients who arrive at the “Caracciolo” in the emergency room, there will always be a radiologist available who will immediately read the reports and make a diagnosis in real time.” The next step will be the mammography machine, Di Santo assured: «The new mammography machine will be available at the end of July, there is work in progress and I think that before the summer we will have diagnostic imaging equipment here that can keep pace with the times and enjoyed by the citizens of Alto Molise”. Reassurances also regarding the Dialysis service which, not only in Agnone, but in all hospitals in Molise, will face stress due to increased demand from users summer. Di Santo is also calm in relation to this problem: «There will absolutely be no shortage of services; we guarantee and will guarantee every service to citizens. We are redesigning a healthcare system that will see types of services not only hospital-based, but also territorial; so dialysis will remain as such, indeed it will be implemented and strengthened, but as a territorial activity and no longer hospital-based”. The intervention of the president of the Molise Region, the governor Francesco Roberti, was a little more political, as he dusted off the “border agreements”, even if only with a hint, as on every occasion of his visit to Agnone. «With this new technological equipment, the Agnone hospital will also be able to serve the Abruzzo region, but first and foremost to streamline the waiting lists in our region, through telemedicine and remote reporting. Regarding personnel, Molise has the highest number of nurses, according to relationships with patients and regulations, while there is undoubtedly a shortage of doctors, but it is also a recurring theme in other regions of Italy. We came to Agnone to say that we would equip the hospital with a new CT scan; today we returned to say that we have kept that promise.” Then the announcement, also awaited for years, regarding the operating rooms: «The next step will be to adapt the operating rooms of the “Caracciolo”, to be
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