Postponed to September. The meeting in the Department of Health set for tomorrow, August 9, for the illustration of the feasibility study of the new hospital in Cagliari has been postponed to a later date due to the high risk of holiday defections.

Among those summoned were the mayor Paolo Truzzu and the heads of the health companies concerned. The invitation letter was sent after the Ares technicians, last week, had sent their documents to the representative of the Solinas junta. But as the days went by it emerged that few, very few, would be present. So here is the postponement decision.

The details on the new structure are kept in the strictest confidence but the fundamental elements are leaking out. The assumed expenditure is over half a billion euros: the tables speak of a figure that would be around 550 million. Money that would be used for the construction of 854 beds distributed in horizontally developed blocks that would occupy an area that will have an estimated extension between 25 and 30 hectares. A land that according to the directives of the president of the Region should already be public property. Entirely or in its large part. Where? The cards weren't supposed to give an answer and they don't. The technicians had the task of limiting themselves to providing general characteristics. But an eye to the maps has been given. And a hypothesis emerges, which is not new: a potentially suitable area has been identified in the plain of San Lorenzo, between the 131 Dir and the junction for the 554.

Marino and Microcitemico

It all stems from the resolution of the regional council of June 1st which dictated the times for the planning of four new hospitals in Sardinia. The new "city hospital" was planned in Cagliari. The declared objective was the «reorganization and sizing of the functions of the “Brotzu” dell'Arnas and of the “Oncologico-Businco” for the unification in a single complex». But the study sent to Health Councilor Carlo Doria in recent days goes further. The creation of a pediatric pole is hypothesized, with a unification of departments now distributed between Brotzu and Microcitemico, which would therefore be involved. Like the Marine. and, again according to the plans (more ideas than reality), also a community hospital for rapid treatment of non-serious diseases.