The birth point of the Lanusei hospital is closed from 8 January and will remain so until 20, a disservice that forces women in Ogliastra to face a long journey to Nuoro or Cagliari.
This is the third interruption of a fundamental service in a few days due to a shortage of doctors, after the closure of Cardiology and Pediatrics, despite the assurances of the health councilor Mario Nieddu who intervened via videoconference on the occasion of the last presidium of the mayors.
"A first parturient wrote to us telling us that between Saturday and Sunday she went to the hospital and found the ward blocked - says the spokesperson of the #giulemanidallogliastra association Adriano Micheli - It is not possible to continue in this way until January 20: if a a pregnant woman should break water in Tortolì would have to travel over an hour to get to Nuoro, the nearest birth point, with the risk that if she finds ice and snow she has to go back and maybe face another hour and a half of travel to Cagliari. We will raise the level of protest and if the birth point does not reopen immediately the mayors will call the COCs, because there is an emergency situation here. Just as we are in an emergency with the closure of Cardiology which prevents the hospital from functioning if doctors are not put in their place to make the wards work ".
However, there is no talk of shortening the time for the reopening of the birth point. "The ward will reopen on January 20, the day on which two doctors who are now sick and on leave will return - explains Luigi Ferrai, health director of the hospital - to these will be added the services of some professionals who will arrive from Cagliari, waiting for a definitive solution. the shortage of doctors in the ward ".
(Unioneonline / vl)