Impossibility of fully evaluating all patients, given the number of admissions, and impossibility of personally noting the data in the medical record : these are some of the reasons with which the Tempio Prosecutor's Office requested the archiving of a file ( manslaughter ) opened to two doctors from the Olbia emergency room.
In fact, the prosecutor's arguments sanction a sort of surrender of the health system in the Olbia garrison. The John Paul II Emergency Department, as is known, is overloaded with visits especially in the summer and has very few doctors on staff. If something doesn't work, according to the prosecutor, the specialists cannot be accused. The "bomb" argument comes to the conclusion of the Manca case. Salvatore Manca, 61 years old, a lawyer from Sassari, died in the Olbia emergency room in August 2020 . The prosecutor, requesting the dismissal, indicates a series of arguments (a particular situation that did not allow the results of the tests to be easily read; the contradiction between the pathology, the aortic dissection, and the patient's stable condition). But the sensational fact comes at the end of the request for dismissal, essentially the prosecutor writes that the condition of the emergency room (numerous accesses and few staff) makes it impossible to fully evaluate the patients . Salvatore Manca's family, represented by the lawyer Sebastiano Tola, doesn't agree. The lawyer filed an opposition to the dismissal. According to the victim's relatives , «during the stay in isolation and until the following day, not only was the patient no longer monitored or visited , but above all, with the exception of the blood samples carried out by the nursing staff, no one answered the calls made by the nursing staff. to express one's discomfort or physiological needs".
