A department for detained patients is coming to the Santissima Trinità in Cagliari. The activation of the facility, on the agenda of the Council today, comes after years of requests and waiting. The Region will give the mandate to ASL 8 to activate the department, which will include four dedicated rooms. As the regional secretary of Sappe, Luca Fais, underlined yesterday, the "little department" has been ready for some time, but until now it has been "used as a warehouse".

The discussion comes the day after what happened at the hospital in Cagliari where an inmate, sent to the emergency room for a psychiatric consultation, began to rant against the doctor who had refused to increase the maintenance therapy . The tension increased minute after minute, so much so that the man also attacked the escort officers, throwing himself on them with his fists and handcuffs.

The definition of a regional network of penitentiary healthcare dates back to 2017, when «with resolution no. 13/5 of 14/3/2017 a “Hub/spoke with dedicated rooms or hospital ward for prisoners” service was provided».

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