A dialysed patient can never suspend treatment, not even for a few days to go on holiday, because he needs three sessions a week, every week of the year, which is why tourist dialysis has existed in Trentino for over 15 years. This is the possibility of having treatment in one of the six dialysis centres of the Azienda provinciale per i servizi sanitari, an important public health offer for chronic dialysis patients from other regions or countries. To date, the number of sessions carried out thanks to Apss has reached 1,370. This was announced by Health Councillor Mario Tonina and Apss general director Antonio Ferro this afternoon, on the sidelines of the press conference on the dialysis open day, thanking all the staff involved in the project, in particular the head of the Struttura semplice coordinamento centri dialisi di Rovereto, Arco, Tione, Borgo, Cles and Trento Giuliano Brunori, director of the Unità operativa nefrologia ed emodialisi - multizonale di Apss.
"On the subject of holiday dialysis, the Autonomous Province of Trento can make a difference, and just a few days before the end of the year, the figures are well above 2022: 1,370 people have been able to benefit from this service. The directors of the hospitals I have visited in recent weeks have confirmed this excellence of our health system, which shows a sense of responsibility and humanity towards those who have this need," Tonina said
"We have succeeded in guaranteeing these numbers, which are higher than those of other Italian regions, supporting an important workload, which has also been recognised by the National Association of Haemodialysis Patients, which in a recent letter wrote to the Minister of Health regarding the lack of availability of dialysis centres for dialysis tourism in order to guarantee mobility throughout the country for dialysis patients. In the same letter, the association thanked Trentino for not only maintaining the same levels, but increasing them. We are also preparing a plan that takes into account the increase in the number of tourists in our area, to cope with the peak seasons in an organised manner. We are thinking of accidents on the ski slopes, but also dialysis services for less fortunate holidaymakers,' Ferro concluded.
Publication date: 22/12/2023
