Student screening starts amid a thousand controversies in Sardinia, swabs are missing.
In Capoterra of the 2500 swabs required for today's tests, just over 1,500 arrived. «There is no obligation to show up, but I hope that participation is still massive. I thank the doctors and nurses who, despite the short notice, yesterday gave their willingness to administer tampons, ”said Mayor Beniamino Garau.
Situation similar to Settimo where the mayor, Gigi Puddu, gives up: «We have 50 percent of the necessary tampons available but we don't have doctors and nurses to administer them. I believe that this situation is nothing short of hallucinating and that it has direct consequences on families and in particular on the health of pupils. So no screening today ». Is Sunday? "I don't know, we're just waiting for the doctors."
The mayors of the Union of Basso Campidano, on the other hand, found the Cagliari Fair closed and returned home without even a swab: "We had not received an official invitation - the first citizen of Macomer Luisa Murru said -, we still hoped to receive the tampons, but we found the doors closed. They should be delivered on Saturday morning. " A setback that complicates the organization of the tests, which started at the last moment.
Preparations
On the other hand, everything goes smoothly in various municipalities of Sarcidano: Isili, Escolca and Nurallao. In Villanova Tulo the screening took place yesterday. General practitioner Alice Laconi closed the clinic to devote herself to the students. In Samassi, Serrenti, Serramanna and Villacidro rapid antigenic swabs will be carried out today and tomorrow. Preschool pupils are currently excluded and will do so on another date due to the lack of salivary swabs.
The checks in the Marmilla schools will be carried out at the vaccination hub of San Gavino Monreale today and tomorrow as communicated by the mayors of the Union. Even the municipal administration of Maracalagonis today withdrew the swabs for a two-day check at the sports hall. In Burcei we proceed only tomorrow in front of the entrance to the council chamber of the Municipality while in Seui the children and young people are preparing to return to school safely after the swabs carried out yesterday.
Sulcis Iglesiente
Even in the Municipalities of Sulcis Iglesiente away from checks. "Although the Municipality of Carbonia is not the provider of the service - says the mayor Pietro Morittu - we are giving support to the ASL". The screening in the mining town will be tomorrow at the Amaldi institute gym, with 6 thousand swabs available. Instead, there are 3800 for Iglesias: "We will carry them out in two days, Saturday and Sunday and in two different points - says the mayor Mauro Usai - the drive of the Santa Barbara for the Comprehensive institutes and the Lepori room for the higher ones".
The Municipality of Villamassargia has already made the tests available since yesterday morning, Sunday morning they will take place in Buggerru and today we proceed to Fluminimaggiore, Santadi, San Giovanni Suergiu, Sant'Antioco, Gonnesa and Portoscuso. Mass screening, finally, also at the Cavallera Theater in Carloforte.
The rapid tests started yesterday morning from the hub of the Cagliari Fair to the municipalities that requested them. The goal is to ensure screening for the Sardinian school population, over 185,000 children aged 5 to 18, between today and tomorrow.
Someone has already started
Already yesterday, however, some municipal administrations, such as those of Quartu Sant'Elena (in the gym in via Nenni also open today and tomorrow) or Desulo (in the former kindergarten), started this operation without waiting for the directives of the ASL. In Villaspeciosa yesterday with 179 swabs 3 positivity was detected.
"Sardinian and safe" model
However, putting into practice the ordinance signed by the President of the Region on Tuesday night was not easy. «We proceed with buffering points on a voluntary basis - explains Nieddu - in which school-age people are tested, then the data is loaded and people with positivity will be quarantined. It will serve to reduce the viral circulation which at this moment is really high ».
In principle, the screening of students follows the organization that the then Ats and the Region set up for the "Sardis and safe" campaign: "patchy" centers in many countries of the island, some also available to boys from neighboring countries. "As far as I am concerned, I have warned Paulilatino's boys on social channels since yesterday morning to show up in Ghilarza - underlines the mayor, Domenico Gallus - And from today in the village the bars can reopen from the morning until 21".
In the centers of Sassari, Olbia and Arzachena today and tomorrow there are also four defense mobile diagnosis teams, each made up of a medical officer and two Army nurses.
However, the screening will not end tomorrow as councilor Nieddu has proposed to run it for the whole of next week.
(Unioneonline)
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