The blitz started shortly after 5pm yesterday. Ten Sardinian helicopter rescue bases, from north to south of the island, are declared closed. Termination of activity, reads the letter from ENAC, the national civil aviation body. To deliver it to the Areus, the regional agency Emergenza Urgenza, is a note from the regional health department. Ten copies, one for each helicopter base on which the regional flying rescue service relied. Closing provision that affects the heart of Nuorese healthcare, with the seals at the helipad of the hub of central Sardinia, but does not spare those of the coastal areas, from Santa Teresa di Gallura to Arzachena, from that in Montiferru up to the base located in Santa Margherita of Pula.

The blow

A very hard blow to the health system which records the most peremptory of the provisions of the state body: closure. The blow reaches the heart of the Sardinian health emergency system with a paradoxical decision: eight months after the first reminder, nothing has been done to bring the air bases that yesterday they closed the gates. From the airfields of the “rich” areas of the coasts to the strategic ones like that of the San Francesco di Nuoro hospital. The documents in our possession are armored between the Region - Enac and Areus. Word of mouth is decided: the news must remain closed to the outside world. Nobody should know that after 240 days of reminders nothing has been done to make those emergency areas “safe”, starting from the administrative level. Now, however, the provision is severe, with explicit arguments and without hesitation reported in the reiterated state letter for each of the ten closed operational bases.

The Nuoro case

The most serious and relevant decision is the one that affects central Sardinia with the Nuoro base. That heli-surface is not only strategic for the capital of Nuoro, but is the fulcrum of the operational base for the health hub of the inland areas that since yesterday no longer have helicopter support directly connected with the already staggering hospital system in the center of the island. . To receive the blow are directly the leaders of the Asl 3 of Nuoro: "termination of Elibase 118 helipad activities". In practice, no aircraft will be able to land in that stand until the issues that ENAC reports in its entirety in its communication have been addressed. In fact, the State body recalled the subjects reached by the closing provision on the delicacy of the security issue, reconstructing the scandalous management of a story that leaves them astonished. ENAC writes: since July of last year, a complete and timely update of all the sensitive data of the various helipads had been requested.

Eight months of inertia

All those responsible, in reality, not only did not care, but they made the beauty of 8 months pass in vain from that notice, knowing full well that the state cleaver would intervene at the stroke of the deadline. In fact, in February 2021, ENAC canceled the respective cards from the site, simultaneously publishing a notice and asking the interested operators to send the data update that would have allowed the restoration on the site of the interest. After eight months - ENAC writes - it is believed that those helicopter bases "should be considered closed".

From Montiferru to Pula

The provision was delivered throughout the island: in addition to the 118 helicopter rescue base in Nuoro, those of Stintino, Torre Foghe in Tresnuraghes, Helipad del Forte in Santa Margherita di Pula, Helidianel and Micalosu in Arzachena, the Balcaccia in Santa Teresa di Gallura, Koala in Budoni, Campeda in Bonorva and Porto Cervo. The Enac decision has thrown into turmoil the entire health emergency apparatus of the island, given that the location of the helicopter rescue bases, prepared by Areus, was considered fundamental for the timeliness of the emergency intervention.

MP

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