The Giglio di Cefalù Foundation winks at the Mistretta HospitalNebrodi News

The conditions of the “SS Salvatore” hospital in Mistretta are clear to everyone from the point of view of safety. A hospital, although it is still possible to define it as such, on the outskirts that in the past was the reference point for population of the western Nebrodi, with so many and such services capable of providing users with satisfactory health care.

We speak clearly of other times. Times in which there were no disciplinary and regulations on “Definition of qualitative, structural, technological and quantitative standards relating to hospital care”, which today make the existence of all small hospitals difficult. Suburban hospitals such as that of Mistretta which are unable to respond to the specific needs of the inhabitants of the area.

Today new credible prospects for relaunch are opening up for the Amastratino hospital, which could immediately give real feedback and restore dignified health care to the population of the territory of district D29 and serenity to the Maugeri Foundation, located inside the “SS. Savior”, the absence of which would have induced the top management of the Institute a evaluate new development hypotheses in other territories, definitively abandoning Mistretta. The prospects become credible considering that the opportunity is offered directly by theRegional Health Department which in recent days has undertaken an understanding with the Lily Foundation of Cefalù.

In fact, we understand that the commissioner Ruggero Razza, after confronting the president Musumeci and having ascertained the interest on the part of San Raffaele in wanting to expand on the territory, gave a mandate to the group leader of Fratelli D’Italia at the Sicilian Regional Assembly, Elvira Amata, who on several occasions took the defense of the hospital in Mistretta, to confront the president of the Giglio Foundation, Giovanni Albano, to evaluate the possibility of relaunching the Amastratino hospital by strengthening its services. The member of the Health Commission, a few days ago, met Albano with whom he discussed the matter, the state of health of the amastratino hospital, which appears to be a “reserved prognosis”, and what could be the recovery strategies of the hospital.

It should start next Tuesday, day on which, representatives of the Department of Health, the Hon. Amata and president Albano, together with the technicians of Giglio Foundation, have already planned a fact-finding visit to the Mistretta hospital. The idea, pursued by the Department of Health, it is to restore essential services to the territory trying to reorganize a hospital, which is now inadequate, so that it is also able to communicate with extra-hospital services, giving life to a network organization of several structures, which offers each relevant benefits in terms of rationalization in the use of their resources, favors the identification of their own vocation, determines benefits from institutional specialization and above all is able to to favor a greater quality and continuity of assistance.

An unmissable opportunity that, if it were to go to port, it could not only save the Amastratino hospital, but also render first-rate services to the citizens of the area who, for them, now have to move to Patti or Cefalù. Among other things, work is expected to begin at the Mistretta hospital shortly realization of 10 SUAP beds dedicated to welcoming patients in a vegetative state and the creation of a department that includes both Medicine and Surgery for 8 beds, 4 for each division.

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