The Olbia Local Health Authority announces that the s. activity will start in the next few days in La Maddalenamammographic screening in the Paolo Merlo hospital. It will be Dr Nicola Piredda to lead the Simple Departmental Diagnostics Structure, which also includes the Radiology of La Maddalena.
The medical director, already a reference for mammography screening in Olbia, promptly set up the screening program also in La Maddalena. “I would like to thank the Management of the Gallura Local Health Authority for the trust placed in having given me the task of directing the Simple Departmental Diagnostics Structure – declares Doctor Piredda – and in collaboration with Doctor Vanina Rognoni and Dr Pietro Fortuna we are evaluating various solutions to continue to guarantee correct emergency management and optimize workflows by improving accessibility to radiological services”.
The first short-term objective is the reopening of breast screening, which Dr. Piredda already deals with for the Olbia and Tempio Pausania offices, promoting the importance of prevention and early diagnosis also through information and awareness campaigns, putting his training experience acquired at the Senological center of excellence (Breast Unit) in Ravenna, in Emilia Romagna, is available. “We are also working with the Management – adds the Director of the Diagnostics SSD – to implement programs to reduce waiting lists, optimizing the use of hospital resources to deal with the shortage of healthcare personnel and offer a high-quality service. quality without compromising the safety and effectiveness of care”.
“I am satisfied with the start of work by my colleague Piredda and confident in an optimization of resources and in a fruitful collaboration between company units in order to satisfy the health needs of northern Gallura”, says the doctor Vanina Rognonihead of the Multidisciplinary Medicine unit at Paolo Merlo and recently appointed by the Company Management as temporary replacement of Doctor Luca Pilo head of the Medical Directorate of the Unit. “As shared with my colleague, the primary objectives together with the screening program are the maintenance of LEAs in the emergency-urgency context and the reduction of waiting lists. Dr. Piredda’s activity – continues Dr. Rognoni – is part of the project to respond to health needs identified in the company plan and which sees an increasingly close collaboration between the hospital and the territory, making the best use of the available resources”.
