In some areas of the island, people are also dying from inadequate healthcare . We are in Aritzo , on a Friday evening. Nanni Mereu, 46 , has just spent an evening with friends. While returning home in his van, he feels ill. We are just steps away from the emergency medical service. It is closed .

The first to help him were his friends: then, 25 minutes later, the ambulance arrived from Sorgono, with only paramedics . They did everything they could to save him from death, but they failed; the heart attack proved fatal.

A "tragedy foretold," they repeat in town. "Nanni left without a doctor being able to save him ," thunders Deputy Mayor Gianluca Moro, emphasizing the lack of emergency medical services, something that "happens often these days," and the situation of the Sorgono 118 emergency service, which "operates without doctors." This area, he thunders, "is a no-man's land," and this story "is the emblem of a nonexistent right to healthcare."

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