Letter from Rostagno to the general manager Asl / To4 Scarpetta and the regional councilor: “The Cuorgnè garrison has an important health support function for 85 thousand inhabitants and must now resume managing emergencies as in the past”
The mayor of Rivarolo, Alberto Rostagno, on behalf of all 46 mayors of western Canavese, wrote a letter to the councilor for health of the Piedmont Region, Luigi Icardi, and to the director of the ASL / To4, Stefano Scarpetta, to ask for the immediate reopening from the emergency room of the Cuorgnè hospital, closed since November 2020 and transformed into a Covid ward.
“The Cuorgnè garrison has an important health support function for 85 thousand inhabitants – writes Rostagno – now it must resume managing emergencies as in the past”. Especially since, according to the data provided by the ASL / To4, there are no longer Covid hospitalized in Cuorgnè. The mayors, in order to cope with the shortage of personnel, are asking for “different organizational forms” and greater collaboration with local medicine. The letter closes with an urgent request for a meeting: “As local health authorities, we ask to be received to testify the health needs of the area: the reopening of the emergency room is a priority objective for safeguarding the health of our populations”.
The ASL / To4 had already intervened on the subject, explaining that the Cuorgnè emergency room and the first aid point of the hospital of the Lanzo hospital, also transformed at the end of last October into Covid-hospital, did not reopen due to lack of staff. doctor. To guarantee service to the Goddess of Ciriè, the ASL / To4 has already adopted emergency measures by sending urgent specialists from Chivasso and making the shifts of the Goddess of Chivasso cover the shifts of the Dea di Chivasso in turn discovered by surgeons and doctors of the hospital suspending for two months certain types of visits and reducing the number of beds in Medicine.