There are those who slept in their cars. Older and younger, all in line since the night to try to secure a service that should be minimal and guaranteed: a general practitioner.

It happens in Terralba, where there were 500 places available but in the town, in need of a health professional, there are six thousand. And in front of the offices of the health district there were scenes of tension.

Local police officers arrived to regulate traffic, while a Carabinieri patrol also passed by to prevent the situation from degenerating.

Alessandro Rosas, coordinator of the Sardinian committees for public health, is furious while next to him there is an 83-year-old woman "who can't even stand up, forced to come here to queue, without even knowing how to address the office, to see a fundamental right satisfied".

And the online practice? "The procedure," Rosas accuses again, "only allowed the change of doctor: there was no option for those who did not have one."

(Online Union)

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