New storm in the already mined field of Sardinian healthcare. The fuse is lit this time by the costs of oncology drugs that in Sardinia "absorb 77.1%" of the total allocation provided by law. Therefore, on the Island, according to the analysis of the Region, there would be a problem of economic "sustainability".

According to some statements – later denied – by the regional health councilor, Armando Bartolazzi, some therapies could not be given to patients in their eighties . The imbalance in the costs of cancer treatments emerged on Thursday, at the Federsanità conference in which Bartolazzi presented the new oncology network.

A hypothesis that has sparked concern and indignation among Sardinian politicians, especially the Democratic Party, which has spoken of "discrimination", reiterating that "the right to care has no age".

"Saying that treating a patient over eighty is too expensive - reads the note from the Democrats - means trampling on the constitutional principle of the universality of the right to health and betraying the very role of the doctor."

Regional councilor of Fratelli d'Italia Corrado Meloni , on the other hand, defined the councilor's recent statements as unacceptable and discriminatory : «He decides at the table who to treat and who to abandon, more like an accountant than a doctor».

For Umberto Ticca, a member of the Sardinian Reformers, “Longevity is an achievement, not a burden to be cut.”