Emergency room in collapse and departments in difficulty: Sardinian hospitals in red code

Waits of up to 10 hours, clogged wards, exhausted doctors and nurses.

It's a "black" summer in Sardinia's hospitals, which risk collapse, especially in the emergency rooms. But even the inpatient departments are in "code red", such as the Orthopedics and Neurosurgery of San Francesco di Nuoro, suffering due to retirements, holidays and lack of staff.

An increasingly unsustainable situation, with the unions loudly calling for an "urgent discussion" with the Region.

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