No family doctor for patients who are not suffering from particular pathologies or serious illnesses. The procedures for assigning doctors to patients, decided by the company management of the ASL of Sassari, infuriated Pietro Sini, 59, a carabiniere on leave from Porto Torres, recognized as a victim of terrorism.
He is one of the users who this morning went to the Porto Torres health clinic, in the Andriolu area, to ask for the reunification of his wife who was left without assistance following the retirement of her trusted doctor. "Although the family doctor had assured me that, by law and according to the sacrosanct principle of the right to health enshrined in the Constitution, they would allow medical coverage for my wife as well, at the Sau Office the staff sent me home without assistance » explains Sini. And to decide the right to be followed by a doctor, even for ordinary administration, is age and the lack of serious pathologies. Priority will be given to the elderly and the frail.
«They include people born in 1966, suffering from illnesses, - protests the retired carabiniere - while my wife, who had the misfortune of being born in 1967, will remain without a doctor, despite having also been recognized as a victim of terrorism. She will be forced to go to the medical guard to obtain a prescription, a system to create further inconvenience for users. The Region must intervene to resolve this disaster of the health system, given that this army of "without general practitioner" is pouring into the already congested emergency rooms and medical guards ".