"Dear Union,
the writer is a Sardinian woman who emigrated to the continent for many years.
For years I have continued to read about the disastrous state of the San Francesco di Nuoro hospital and about the region's absolute immobility in this sense.
The bomb exploded with the pandemic linked to Covid-19 when it was realized that the Nuorese hospital was completely unprepared, disorganized and with very high staff shortages to manage not only the pandemic emergency, but to continue to guarantee the right to health of other patients.
The problem certainly comes from afar: the San Francesco hospital has been 'emptied' over the years of skills and personnel and also of the departments, flagships of Nuoro healthcare, very little remains.
Now I ask myself: where are the doctors, nurses, OSS that the Region had promised in recent months would arrive at the Nuorese hospital? Where is the concrete commitment that was guaranteed for the entire Nuoro health system? There seems to be no trace.
I am terrified that some of my relatives, friends and acquaintances will fall ill, because at the San Francesco hospital in Nuoro the right to health, enshrined in our Constitution, is no longer guaranteed.
Every time I return to the continent I thank God because, if anything ever happens to me, I'm sure that I will be treated in the hospital of the city where I live and not 200 km away, that I will not have to spend hours and hours in an ambulance or on an emergency room stretcher and that I won't have to be afraid of dying.
What needs to happen for something to be really done? What do we still have to see, listen to and read so that those in charge finally realize that the situation is no longer sustainable and that the right to health is public, of everyone and not just of those who can afford private healthcare for a fee?
Will the San Francesco Hospital return to what it once was or is all this stalemate and silence the prelude to a definitive dismantling?
I hope and hope to soon be proved wrong by the facts.
