Over 1,500 people have been without medical care in Silanus for some time . After urging the Region and the local health authority (ASL), Mayor Gian Pietro Arca has now written a heartfelt letter to the prefect of Nuoro, Alessandra Nigro, and again to Alessandra Todde, the regional health councilor, and the heads of the Nuoro local health authority (ASL).
The mayor writes about the profoundly difficult situation that has been affecting the entire community for several days now. "A situation that leaves over 1,500 patients without any form of basic care ," the mayor writes, "which is having serious repercussions on public health, particularly among the most vulnerable segments of the population, such as the elderly, chronically ill, and vulnerable individuals who require daily care, medical prescriptions, and monitoring. For days, these people have been living in a state of total healthcare abandonment, with no point of contact, no certainty about when and how services will be restored, and without even the ability to obtain clear information from the relevant authorities."
A true social emergency, forcing municipal administrators to manage a dire situation alone. "We are facing a blatant violation of that right, and at the same time the most obvious manifestation of the profound crisis in the local healthcare system in Sardinia's inland areas," Arca writes, "where the lack of facilities, staff, and institutional responses translates, every day, into a growing sense of disorientation, distrust, and abandonment." Hence the Prefect's request for intervention, so that immediate measures be taken to address this emergency.
