Roman slang and a mad desire to set the record straight. The critical issues of the Nuoro healthcare system were, above all, the Armando Bartolazzi show. «They accused me of not knowing the area - the regional health councilor said yesterday afternoon in Nuoro, in the conference room of the San Francesco hospital -. Luckily there were those who knew the territory before me... An Australian aborigine would have done less damage. The doctors are all polarized in Cagliari and Sassari ."
High voltage
The clash between the councilor and the local mayors animated the institutional visit of Alessandra Todde and Bartolazzi to San Francesco in Nuoro yesterday afternoon. " My town has been without a general practitioner for four years ," said the mayor of Olzai, Maddalena Agus . «We have extended the service of Ascot doctors, increased the scholarships for General Medicine courses. My proposal to open up to graduate schools was massacred: where were you mayors? », replied the councilor. Then the jab: «You can't just highlight critical issues that exist and that I know about, and then when ideas are put forward to overcome them, stay silent and don't support me. Because then you are co-responsible if services are lacking ."
Words that generated an immediate reaction from the first citizens in the room. Riccardo Uda, mayor of Macomer , stood up and verbally lashed out at Bartolazzi: «Congratulations councilor, in my opinion he's starting off really badly. Pass the buck on us? In Macomer we should have 8 doctors but there is one. He is wrong if he accuses us of being co-responsible."
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