Healthcare in central Sardinia is increasingly in difficulty, with the hematology department of San Francesco di Nuoro, "historically one of the best in Italy", at risk of closure .

The umpteenth alarm comes from the mayor of Nuoro Andrea Soddu , who wrote to the governor Christian Solinas and the councilor Carlo Doria , launching an appeal to find a solution to the crisis in the health system in the center of the island, which is in a situation « dramatic".

An appeal sent "also in light of the news relating to the closure of the hematology clinic of the San Francesco di Nuoro hospital and the risk of closure of the relative department , historically one of the best in Italy".

«Every day - writes Soddu, although aware of the "complexity of the subject" - citizens and health professionals report problems both within San Francesco and in the local services. For years we have protested, demonstrated, talked to councilors, general managers, commissioners. But despite the reassurances from everyone, little or nothing has changed ».

The mayor observes that a sort of " passive acceptance of the progressive reduction and dismantling of health services in the Nuoro area and in central Sardinia " is almost developing.

Then we move on to the Hematology case of San Francesco : «There is a serious warning of the risk of an imminent downsizing of the department, forced to work with a small number of doctors , some of whom are already being transferred». Even the transfusion service of the Nuorese hospital is "forced to operate with only two doctors" .

Soddu recalls that the Hematology department "derives from an ancient tradition that has led it to be one of the best centers nationwide", while the transfusion service is "fundamental for the functioning of all surgical departments and its closure would condition the activities of the resuscitation service as well as the specialist ones necessary to carry out life-saving therapies in neurological and immune system diseases".