New demonstration for the right to health in the inland areas of Sardinia. Today the association Sos Barbagia Mandrolisai stopped in Ovodda with an extraordinary demonstration in Piazza Gennargentu , to denounce the shortage of doctors and on the front of health services on a population of 12 villages far from the most important hospitals on the island.
"Six months after the new government took office, it is time to take stock and our concerns about the shortcomings of health services, primarily due to the slowness of Ares, are increasing - attacks Bachis Cadau, leader of the association -. We have an emergency that is more of an emergency than all others, which is the lack of pediatricians in all the towns in this district. If there are no doctors, urgent measures must be taken and Ministerial Decree 70 is clear, we must not give up any of the possible options: from the use of specialists in the wards, to rented doctors, to foreign doctors or to itinerant teams of professionals. We have a territory without general practitioners, enormous problems at the Sorgono hospital, on the front of medical guards and polyclinics . At the end of the month - announces Cadau - we will arrive with our buses at the Ares headquarters in Cagliari to express all our concerns".
" We have segments of the population without a general practitioner, there is no pediatrician, the hospital in Sorgono is not working, with very elderly citizens who need care and our children totally without health care - reports the mayor of Ovodda Ilenia Vacca - Not only that, the health facilities are dilapidated: this summer I found myself having to intervene as a Municipality to install air conditioning in the emergency medical services where people went when they felt ill from the heat, a paradox".
Meanwhile, mothers are asking for at least one pediatric Ascot to open : "I have a 3-year-old child and I am expecting another who will be born in October - adds Paola Soru, a teacher - Since last year I have been without a pediatrician and I registered my child among the patients of a pediatrician from Gavoi who left and since July we have been uncovered. I am also afraid for the future unborn child, where will I go to treat him to monitor his growth? We want at least one Ascot in the area but I think that as I am already doing now, I will go to the Emergency Room in Nuoro every time my children have a problem: they have left us no other way".
(Online Union)