There are fifty positions up for grabs, an appeal for medical specialists called to work in the outpatient clinics and districts of the ASL, essential services of a territorial assistance crippled by the lack of white coats and services.

Three months after the last call, Ares (the regional health company) is publishing the offer of further positions under agreement, and with an indefinite term , for orthopedists, cardiologists, ophthalmologists, nephrologists, psychiatrists, rheumatologists and experts in twelve other specialties, with the hope of filling the staffing gaps in local health services throughout Sardinia.

A dashed hope in the latest announcements, with half of the positions remaining vacant and too many candidates withdrawing when the assignment is not in Cagliari or Sassari (and there are no incentives that hold up). The real problem, it must be said, concerns the number of hours offered. For the fifty assignments in the announcement, Ares makes available a total of 530.5 hours per week, a quota that ends up being diluted among the requests of each territory.

So the four specialists who will be assigned to the ASL of Sassari will have to divide a total of 32 hours per week, in practice eight hours each (and for some even less, depending on the needs).

The three who serve in the Gallura polyclinics would each have no more than five hours a week; eight for the eleven destined for Nuoro; ten hours for the six professionals called to Ogliastra; just six hours a week for the five white coats eligible for Sulcis; thirteen, the five requested by the Cagliari ASL and, but here it is already a little better, fifteen hours a week for the sixteen specialists called to the territorial services of Oristano.