Cisl of Oristano: "Healthcare, cost of living and depopulation dramatic problems"
The pensioners' union met to approve the statute and described the very difficult situation of the province and of the entire island
Inflation, work, depopulation and health care. The main issues to be resolved in the Oristano area and throughout the island according to the Cisl pensioners of Oristano, whose general council met today to approve the new statute and the implementing regulation in the presence of the regional secretary Alberto Farina and the secretary General Alessandro Perdisci.
A minute of silence was observed to remember Laura Bozzo, the historic manager who died in January.
Once the final balance and estimates were approved, the provincial secretary Salvatore Usai presented the report to the Council, bringing out dramatic data on the economic situation in the Oristano area: health, energy, tourism, falling birth rates, pensions.
«The thousand extensions decree allows today to hire young graduate doctors on a fixed-term basis for the whole of 2023 - said Usai - and to confer assignments to new trainees. Pediatricians will be able to retire at 72. But unfortunately the situation remains dramatic, in Sardinia there are 439 general practitioners (one in three) missing. The quality of life says that on the basis of 90 indicators all the capitals are in sharp decline: Cagliari is in 18th place, Sassari in 69th, Oristano in 70th and Nuoro in 74th».
Inflation, albeit slightly decreasing, "burned the savings relating to current account deposits for the year 2022 with a loss of 63%".
From November 2021 to November 2022, employment grew by 1.2%, but labor shortages remain, especially in the tourism sector. Trade unionists are also concerned by the cancellation of the Citizenship Income.
Then the demographic data, alarming in the Oristano area, where the population has fallen below 150,000 inhabitants in a regional framework that has 275 municipalities with fewer than 3,000 inhabitants, 33 with fewer than 700 and as many as 260,000 empty houses: «In perspective, we have 70% of surface of Sardinia that is heading towards desertification».
(Unioneonline/L)
