Still no Areus tender to keep the only active ambulance service active in the municipality of Sorso. Emergencies, however, arise daily.
The voluntary association Soccorso Sant'Anna covered the town's station on a 24-hour basis, a service that recently continued in fits and starts due to some internal difficulties, until it was definitively suspended.
«For about a month and a half the city of Sorso has been without an ambulance», explains Federico Pintus, president of the Croce Blu rescue association, «we as an association had given our availability, to provide immediate support while waiting for the publication of the expression of interest from Areus".
The mayor himself had said he was ready to entrust the service to the Blue Cross, but had to give up when faced with the tender process. In the meantime, the town, with around 15 thousand inhabitants, remains without coverage and there are delays in emergencies, because the Sardo Rescue vehicles intervene from Porto Torres, others from Sennori and Sassari.
In the rescue intervention in Sorso, on 3 February, following the death of Giovanna Crimi, 69 years old, victim of the explosion of an LPG cylinder, the ambulance arrived from Porto Torres, taking 25 minutes after the call.
«The Blue Cross is based in Sassari», adds Pintus, «but those arriving from Porto Torres take about half an hour, and in an emergency situation such as cardiac arrest, immediate intervention is crucial to save a human life ».
