MESSINA (ITALPRESS) – “Regarding the recent events affecting the Milazzo PS, I want to emphasize and acknowledge first and foremost, the great commitment of our staff who are constantly engaged in emergency and urgent care. At a time of increasing pressure on health services, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all staff for their dedication and professionalism, which are essential to ensure timely and quality care for our patients. We have implemented new strategies to improve efficiency and reduce waiting times, and we are committed to providing the necessary resources to support staff in this crucial task.” This was said by General Director Giuseppe Cuccì, who further stated, “We recognize the complicated challenges faced by hospital staff on a daily basis, and we are working tirelessly to ensure that every patient receives the care they need. Regarding the case of the lady who remained so many hours in the Milazzo emergency room to whom all our solidarity goes, it should be pointed out that taking into account the priorities identified by triage on that afternoon there were as many as 7 emergency cases classified as red, therefore serious with priority of care. The problem of the Milazzo emergency room as well as somewhat for all urgent care garrisons is that most of the accesses come from chronic patients, white or green codes, that is, from patients who are not serious and highlight a vulnus in the taking care of the territorial network that the actions of DM 77, with the implementation of Community Homes and Community Hospitals will try to address and solve. In addition, there is the endemic shortage of personnel that is registered especially in the ‘area of emergency urgency with staffing shortages of physicians common to all emergency departments not only in the ASP of Messina, but nationwide.” “To implement the organic endowments of the emergency deans of the ASP of Messina continues Cuccì – there has been a tremendous effort by the ASP to hold competitions to recruit emergency physicians with disappointing results, in particular only in the last months of my management have been carried out as many as three competitive tests for emergency urgency and another notice is already in the official gazette. We implement the necessary measures to streamline the procedures for taking charge in the SPs such as, for example, the purchase of new stretchers and the construction of several ambulance recovery boxes. With regard to the relocation of the 118 station within the Barcelona hospital, I would like to clarify that the choice is functional from the technical and logistical aspect does not replace the reopening of the Emergency Department, in this regard I assure that we will continue with the competitions for medical directors and at the same time other solutions are being considered by the company. No Hospital garrison will be left behind and we continue our daily efforts to ensure quality services.”
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