The political movement Domani Motus Liberi (D-ML) has taken a firm stance on the conditions at San Marino’s State Hospital. In a statement released today, the movement argues that recent incidents at the facility point to increasingly evident deterioration, and it is calling on the Government to clarify its plans for the new hospital project.
“The situation at the State Hospital has now crossed a critical threshold. What until yesterday could be dismissed as a series of isolated incidents increasingly looks like the symptom of a progressive deterioration of the building — the result of years of postponed maintenance and a lack of planning that is now coming due,” the statement reads.
D-ML then points to a number of problems reportedly occurring in recent hours: “Yesterday, both lifts on staircase F were simultaneously out of service. The lifts on staircase D are also said to be experiencing faults, causing inevitable inconvenience for patients, staff and visitors.”
The movement adds that “this morning, the false ceiling in the CT scan area collapsed due to a water leak. A similar incident affected the Day Surgery unit, where water infiltration from ongoing works in the Surgery department caused a false ceiling to give way.”
According to the statement, “the leak is also said to have disrupted the water supply to the Emergency Department, while CT scan diagnostic activity is reportedly suffering delays even for urgent examinations, inevitably affecting the organisation of emergency care.”
For D-ML, “we are not talking about mere inconveniences here. We are talking about the only hospital in the Republic of San Marino, the healthcare facility entrusted with every citizen’s health, where doctors, nurses, technicians and staff continue every day to provide care and assistance with professionalism, despite increasingly difficult structural conditions.”
The movement further stresses that “reports from patients and from those who work inside the hospital every day are now constant,” and notes that “those responsible for maintenance know better than anyone the limits of a building that requires continuous intervention. This is not a matter of the commitment or professionalism of those who work every day to keep it running: it is the clear sign of a building that has reached the limit of what it can withstand.”
According to D-ML, “maintenance must continue and must be stepped up. No one can think that, while waiting for a definitive solution, vigilance over the safety of patients and workers can be relaxed. But it would be equally irresponsible to keep believing that stopgap measures are enough to solve what are now structural problems.”
In the closing part of the statement, the movement directly challenges the Government and returns to the question of the new hospital: “And this is where the real political problem emerges. What has become of the new State Hospital? For years it was described as strategic infrastructure for the country’s future, yet today it seems to have completely vanished from public debate. What is the status of the project? Is there still a plan in place? What is the timeline? Or has the Government decided, without telling citizens, to abandon it altogether?”
