Areus "halves" the emergency service in the Uta prison in Cagliari and infuriates the Region, which has warned the general director of the Regional Emergency and Urgency Agency Simonetta Bettelini .

The 118 doctors' service, the DG established, is guaranteed only for 12 hours, from 8pm to 8am . A decision, explains the president of the "Socialism Rights Reforms ODV" association Maria Grazia Caligaris, which has created concern among prisoners, family members and prison workers.

«Limiting the working hours of emergency doctors to night hours, from 8pm to 8am, seems to mean that dangerous situations cannot occur during the day», continues Caligaris, recalling that we are talking about a « complex reality, where together with people with multiple physical pathologies, there are many with psychiatric problems which often result in reckless acts that put their lives at risk"..

The response from the Department of Health was ready: «Despite the request not to continue in this direction, the general director of Areus Simonetta Bettelini decided to undertake this unilateral choice made autonomously, without any authorization or provision from the department which will then immediately issue an official warning . We distance ourselves from this absolutely unshared position and invite the director to immediately revoke the measure."

(Unioneonline/L)

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