«The right to health is the reason for our struggle , above all as doctors . Despite the 40 degrees announced, the flash mob was a success ».
Thus Claudia Zuncheddu , one of the promoters of the event which was attended by demonstrators from Alghero, Bosa, Lanusei, Castiadas, Iglesias, Quartu and other centers of Campidano. The 30 cyclists at the start doubled along the way.
The event was promoted by Isde Sardegna, the Sardinian Public Health Defense Network, the Medical Association of the province of Cagliari, the Sa Mata cultural association and Life After Oil.
All generations on two wheels, from Angelo Serra, 83 years old and with a diplomatic career behind him, to Pietro Cruccas, 80 years old, to a group of children from Assemini. Ivan-Luca Melis from Iglesias, 45, suffering from multiple sclerosis, participated with his wheelchair.
The Doctors for the Environment of Isde Sardegna and the Sardinian Defense Public Health Network are at the start, always in the front row in the fight for the right of Sardinians to health and to reaffirm the stop to environmental pollution. « More controls on polluting activities . Refunds immediately. Renaturalization and reconversion of polluted territories. Stop dismantling the public health system. Access to prevention and treatment with the restoration and rationalization of local health services and Sardinian hospitals. Reorganization of personnel and respect for the dignity of the health professions".
In Sardinia, Salute, in footballing terms, cannot be in relegation, the promoters have said . «It is for “La Salute in Serie A” that we defied the weather warning along a 16 km route, from the former laundry in Via Coghe in Assemini, to Fluorsid. In Sardinia the risks exist. This is attested by the data of the Epidemiological Study of the doctors of Isde Sardegna, but not only. This is recognized by the Italian State itself which has taken measures to confine the polluted sites to be reclaimed. Between Porto Torres and the south-west of the island, a third of the Sardinian territory is polluted, therefore one Sardinian out of three lives in habitats that need reclamation».
«Not from today, powerful and unscrupulous characters wallow in this Land», continues Claudia Zuncheddu, «where they are allowed to evade the rules in force. That the life of the Sardinians is worth little is certified by the actions, omissions, silent assent of our political class. Two sides that have alternated in the government of Sardinia for decades, united by a devastating political design for the right to health of the environment and communities. They imported and imposed a and at the same time contributed to the dismantling of Sardinian public health".