Feeling sick during the week of Ferragosto is prohibited. In Oristano, but also in the surrounding towns, health care is reduced to the bare minimum even now despite the presence of tourists .
The emergency does not subside, with all the inconveniences that this entails. One of all is the queue at the emergency room of the San Martino Hospital in Oristano . Where everyone is forced to go in the absence of a family doctor. On the morning of the 14th, the doors of the emergency medical service in via Carducci, in Oristano, remained closed. Many who needed a non-urgent medical consultation or a prescription for a medicine were forced to go to the emergency room.
The line of people waiting was long since early in the morning. But it is only the beginning. As reported by the ASL of Oristano on the institutional website, the medical emergency service due to the lack of a doctor will not be active today, August 16, nor on the 17th, 18th and 19th . The ASL also made it known that those in need can go to the nearby clinics. Which ones are not known, it is not specified.
But things are no better in nearby Cabras . Here too, again on the morning of the 14th, the doctor did not show up in the clinic on via Tharros . Since the early hours of the morning, many tourists needed to be seen. Some had a high fever due to food poisoning, some had been stung by a jellyfish. Some waited in vain for a long time, others instead went straight to the hospital. In Cabras, the shifts of the Medical Guard are not active today, August 16th, and the daytime shift on Sunday, August 18th. Instead, the shift on Sunday, August 18th will be regularly active from 8 pm to 8 am the following day. Subject to other changes.