Now only the last seal is missing, that of the Ministry of Health. Then the map of beds in Sicilian hospitals will become definitive and each structure will have to proceed with the remodeling. With the OK of the Health Commission of the Ars, the draft of the new hospital network proposed by the Schifani government is one step away from becoming effective. The voices of dissent, votes against Pd and Five Stars, were not lacking in the classroom, but the majority managed to give the green light to the document. For Messina and its province the most important passage concerns the pediatric cardiac surgery of Taormina. In defense of what is a real excellence in the healthcare scene of Southern Italy have mobilized in many, now with the new hospital plan, pediatric cardiac surgery becomes an integral part of the regional system.
The document provides 8 beds of pediatric cardiac surgery at Papardo, all working in the Taormina hospital garrison, as well as coronary unity and cardiology. For the city of Messina, the most important changes concern the polyclinic that earns places in the emergency room, in orthopedics and pneumology, with some “less” sign in general medicine, pediatrics and gastroenterology. The Papardo loses beds that will have to count 344 overall. Instead, to earn compared to the 2019 network is the IRCCS Bonino Pulejo, even if to activate them it will be necessary to renovate some pavilions, but no news on the necessary loan. For the Messina deputy Pippo Laccoto, who presides over the Commission to Ars, the new hospital network does not solve the problems of Sicilian healthcare by itself, but represents an important step towards the efficiency of the system. Although in a framework of overall rationalization, the new network brings with it increases in services and increased beds in different hospitals in the province: Barcelona, Patti and Sant’Agata Militello can count on two more beds than the previous network, Mistretta has seen the activation of three beds in the Otolaryngology department, in Milazzo the equipment of 10 seats in the Stroke unit must be underlined, enhancing the fact of the province.