“In San Marino the Oncology Department is unable to meet the needs of patients”
The voluntary associations of cancer patients in San Marino launch the S.OS for the Oncology department of the Titano.
AOS – San Marino Oncological Association, ASDOS – San Marino Association for Breast Operated Women and ASLEM – San Marino Association for the Fight against Leukemia and Malignant Hemopathies intervene in a note to confirm the difficult situation in the San Marino hospital as reported by a citizen in recent days .
“The patient’s public stance – write the volunteers – is unfortunately not the only one, and even the valontarism associations that speak out about cancer patients, never like today, receive responses to dare to their patients inconvenienceresulting from the increasingly evident difficulty of a oncology department without a guidewith exhausted staff who, despite their efforts, are unable to meet the needs of patients.
For the three associations “it is disconcerting that months after resignation of the manager of the ward, the same has not yet been replaced, leaving the fate of the patients at the mercy of external consultants, present intermittently in the ward, all of whom can only weigh on the shoulders of Dr. Santelmo, Dr. De Luigi and Dr. Bugli, together with all the nursing staff, to whom our support and gratitude goes “.
For these reasons, the Associations add “loudly, in the interest of cancer patients, that yes promptly and effectively resolve the treatments of the oncology department, identifying suitable and qualified personnel to support all those who need care and assistance. Time is greeting ”.