The Aned Calabria Committee, led by Maria Larosa, expresses satisfaction with the activation of the third evening dialysis shift at the “Pugliese” facility in Catanzaro, authorized by the extraordinary commissioner Simona Carbone at the request of the head of Nephrology and Dialysis, Salvatore Chiarella. «Strange but true! In Calabria – we read in a note – the resident population and the number of public health personnel are decreasing while the number of patients on dialysis is increasing dramatically. The numbers don’t lie: in 2023 there were 1,493 Calabrian dialysis patients, today they are 1,544. The causes of this dramatic increase are to be found in the few transplants performed due to non-existent organ procurement in the eight Calabrian spoke hospitals and the opposition (50%) of the population to donation in resuscitation. Official data from the National Transplant Center of 26 October”.
«Professor Piergiorgio Messa – Aned further points out -, former president of the Italian Society of Nephrology, stated, and we with him, that every new dialysis patient expresses the failure of the discipline not due to the fault of the nephrologists but due to the system being incapable of preventing the disease. Many local dialysis centers in Calabria – Catanzaro Lido for everyone – due to a nursing shortage, carry out fewer service shifts and a reduced use of the technical positions available for each shift. This reverberates with enormous physical and moral inconvenience for many patients and family members forced to carry burdensome transport to distant centers.”
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