To claim the right to health care, the citizens of Ottana took to the streets today. The requests concern in particular a second general practitioner and a pediatrician, both locations have been vacant for months, and the problem is common to many centers in Barbagia, where the doctor has been absent for years.
Schools also took part in the demonstration organized by the municipal administration which took place with a procession that started from the school buildings and reached the town hall where an assembly was held throughout the town.
“One thousand and 500 patients were left without health care, as well as hundreds of children - said Mayor Franco Saba -. For months, you have to get in the car for a prescription and the parents of the little patients have been forced to go to paid pediatricians . We currently have only one general practitioner who also works in Sarule and comes only twice a week to Ottana. We lost the second doctor as well as the pediatrician and they have never been replaced, so we can't go on. Our protest will not stop there : we have started collecting signatures that we will bring to the top of the ASL - concluded the mayor - and if necessary we will make other demonstrations until we get our right guaranteed by the Constitution ”.
(Unioneonline / ss)
