Do you need an MRI, ultrasound or CT scan? Wait a year or contact a private individual.
Alternatively, there is also the intramoenia option, i.e. carrying out the examination within the walls of the hospital. You will use the same machines, but by paying for the service received you will reduce the time.
In parallel with the ranking of health services provided by the individual Italian regions, which once again sanctioned the triumph of Tuscany, followed by Emilia Romagna and Piedmont, the list of waiting times that patients must respect before carry out a diagnostic test, a surgical operation or a specialist visit as part of the public health.
The data is disclosed by the PIT Salute report published by Cittadinanza Attiva. According to the report, more and more Italian citizens are choosing to turn to private structures, not out of free choice, but simply because otherwise they would have to wait a lifetime before receiving the necessary exams.
How long do we have to wait? Average waiting times are 9 months, but for an magnetic resonance it rises to 13. 12 months of waiting instead for mammography and tac, while those who need an ultrasound or x-ray will have to wait 9 and 7 months respectively.
But if the times to carry out the exams already seem long to you, those for a surgical operation they will seem endless to you: 2 years for maxillofacial surgery, the removal of a hip prosthesis or breast reconstruction, almost a year for an inguinal hernia, 10 months to remove a cataract, 7 months to repair a fractured femur.
And what about the specialist visits. If you are not going to pay a fee, you will have to arm yourself with patience and wait a year for a psychiatric visit, 9 months for an ophthalmologist, 8 to see a cardiologist and six months to speak to an orthopedic or even an oncologist.
Attachments: Table_WAITING LISTS.pdf.html
