Orvieto, the Senology facility will be operational again in September

Orvieto, the Senology facility will be operational again in September

“Within a month we will be able to make the Breast Care facility fully operational, 7 days a week, both for the clinical part and for mammography screening”.

This is the declaration of the director of the Diagnostic Imaging Department of the Usl Umbria 2 and head physician of the complex structure of Radiology of the “Santa Maria della Stella” hospital dr. Ugo Ciammella.

“At this stage, the completion of the staffing is being completed – explains dr. Ciammella – which will allow us to reactivate all diagnostic, clinical and prevention activities, with the entry of medical managers and radiology technicians (partly already hired) who participated in the notice issued by the company management and who are carrying out the final formalities for entry into service.

Some of these professionals are in fact currently employed in other companies and there are procedural procedures with technical times to be respected to process the transfer requests to the Usl Umbria 2.

In the meantime, the clinical cases that required urgent intervention, for example women suffering from breast cancer or serious pathologies, were all duly and carefully followed in the correct manner and within the established times, in consideration of the degree of urgency indicated by the prescriber or by the oncologist “.

“The priority of the health care company and of the Umbria Region – explains the general manager of the Usl Umbria 2 company dr. Massimo De Fino – is to restart mammography screening for breast cancer in a very short time with periodic on-call checks aimed at women aged between 50 and 69 years.

Within a few weeks, at the beginning of September, we will provide concrete answers in this regard with the aim of immediately reabsorbing and recovering the services not performed both due to the pandemic emergency and to the shortages of staff resulting from retirements, transfers, illnesses. , pregnancy.

Despite this, the company has purchased a new mammography unit with tomosynthesis, a latest generation machinery; has hired a radiology technician who will take up service in the hospital on Wednesday 3 August; from the beginning of September a freelance contract will be activated in favor of a breast doctor who has already applied for employment for the ‘Santa Maria della Stella’; in two weeks, Dr. Lolli, head of the company Brest Unit for biopsy-surgery visits, will guarantee outpatient activities in Orvieto.

Reiterating that emergencies and oncological checks have all been carried out up to now within the times indicated by the prescriber in the request – says the health manager – from September, once the invitations to patients have been sent, screening will restart at full capacity, better than what did not happen in past years “.

“For several months the company management and professionals have therefore been busy every day – confirms dr. Ugo Ciammella – to build a virtuous path not only linked to the execution of mammography but to create a multidisciplinary team composed of a breast surgeon, radiologist, oncologist and radiotherapist for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and to guarantee, therefore, to our clients, complete and quality answers. We were the first, with loyalty and transparency – company management, hospital management, diagnostic imaging department – even in a recent television interview, to raise temporary critical issues related to the provision of mammography screenings “.

“To enter, as was done in the second place, with instrumental and decomposed declarations, which expire in sterile controversies, in an area in which, with concrete and verifiable acts, a common, collective and profitable effort of the company and professionals is recorded – he adds dr. Massimo De Fino – is ungenerous and takes no account of the fact that the demand for radiological professionals far exceeds the supply and availability of specialists.

We will continue to do our part with commitment, passion and dedication – concludes the general manager of the Usl Umbria 2 company – to face and overcome difficulties and guarantee high standards and full satisfaction of users’ requests “.