Don't "get rid of it". That is: do not let patients get off the ambulances and do not let them enter the emergency room. The directive arrived in recent days to the 118 operators who were stationed outside the Santissima Trinità, in Cagliari.

Consequence: ambulances lined up, endless waiting with those in need of assistance forced to wait on board. And vehicles stolen from the territory because they were blocked in the square. A problem that has occurred in Is Mirrionis, but also in other health facilities in the city.

The reason: hospitals are saturated and there are no places to hospitalize an impressive amount of patients, in a period in which respiratory pathologies (not Covid, but various influences) add up to ordinary ones, affecting a population that is always older.

In addition, there is a lack of territorial assistance: there are fewer and fewer family doctors, as well as medical guards. And the only treatment solutions remain hospitals. They can't do it anymore . Just like the staff (seventy patients were treated at the Santissima Trinità tonight alone), the users and the rescuers of the 118. The system risks collapsing.

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