"Justice for Tuveri". "Dignity for Sardinian healthcare". "We want a head doctor". "Hands off Ogliastra". It's another difficult morning in front of Businco , the oncology hospital in Cagliari that "they are dismantling". The meeting is at 10 in front of the entrance. Dozens are under the sun. Each with their own story, each for their own battle.
The morning of protest was officially organized to defend Massimiliano Tuveri, the internationally renowned oncologist who returned to Sardinia last year, who has been working at Arnas Brotzu since June 2024 and was recently demoted . A lady even came from Venice to defend him. "He saved a loved one," says Maria Elisabetta Pacchiani .
But then the occasion is good to denounce «the Sardinian health system in disarray, this council with president Todde and councilor Bartolazzi is not keeping its promises, not even on Businco» , as stated by Giancarlo Nonnis , a representative of the associations that defend the right to health.
The testimonies mark the morning. Egidio, from Lanusei , says that " if it hadn't been for Professor Tuveri, who operated on me when they didn't understand what I had, I would be under the cypress trees . I had to go to Verona", where the doctor, a luminary especially in surgical oncology of the pancreas, worked. Before returning to Sardinia, which ended as we know.
The desperation for the Sardinian health system that doesn't work is also in the tones among the committees that rise up. "We are here only for Dr. Tuveri", say some. "It is right that everyone speaks", others make themselves heard. A division, in the end, only apparent. Because at Businco, just inside the entrance gate, what is being played out is just another morning of desperation for those who, helplessly, ask to be treated .