"Work imminent", it has been officially said several times, but at the Oncology Department the construction site for the renovation of the operating rooms has not yet started.

Meanwhile, the stalemate is causing many operations to be cancelled – Thoracic Surgery has had to slow down its activity and Endoscopy is closed – and patients continue to suffer.

The first communications from the Company arrived last autumn, then in the following months, finally on 9 April the "definitive" press release announcing the urgent transfer of the Thoracic Surgery patients to San Michele (done on Sunday 13 April) and the start of operations.

In the middle, a sea of controversy, demonstrations, legal disputes, all against this way of proceeding that has not taken into consideration alternative solutions, in an increasingly poisonous climate between doctors (of all unions) and the management of Arnas, which has even gone so far as to report its employees on sick leave.

A month and a week after that note, in the Businco square not a single worker can be seen, only an orange fence that delimits the area of the interventions, while up on the second floor the rooms that should become beautiful, highly efficient and cutting-edge, are empty and abandoned.

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