Healthcare is also stopping in Sardinia for the 24-hour national strike of doctors, health managers, nurses and healthcare professionals, proclaimed by the unions Anaao-Assomed, Cimo-Fesmed and Nursing Up, who this morning, at noon, met in Rome with a long list of demands.

There are also Sardinian delegations , ready to bring the island's discontent to the capital .

There are approximately 1.2 million healthcare services that could be cancelled throughout Italy, in addition to 15 thousand interventions at risk of postponement as well as 100 thousand specialist visits.

"As in all other regions , only emergencies and urgencies will be guaranteed ," explains Luigi Mascia, regional secretary of Cimo . With the result that ordinary activities that are already struggling will be paralyzed. Among the reasons for the protest is above all discontent with the national budget law, considered disappointing by the medical health sector.

"We are here in this square in Rome to bring the cry for help , the cry of desperation of Sardinian professionals - says Marino Vargiu , director of Nursing up Sardegna - The Island is experiencing an emergency within an emergency . We work in inhumane conditions , perpetually understaffed and underpaid, situations for which people are resigning or are abandoning Sardinia but also Italy, to go to regions or countries where the working conditions are certainly more favorable".

"The chronic shortage of staff, aggravated by dramatic working conditions, has made it impossible to guarantee essential levels of care - the group denounces in a note summarizing the reasons for the protest - Our nurses face grueling shifts, often up to 17 consecutive hours, for salaries that do not exceed 1,600 euros per month" .

In particular, the national budget law is in the crosshairs, "a mockery for nurses - says Nursing up -: the resources allocated to our category are paltry. For 2025, nurses will receive only 7 euros net per month as a salary increase, with a prospect of 80 euros in 2026".

Then there is the issue of security : among the eight points indicated by the union as requests to the government, there is an appeal to make hospitals safe , with public safety devices and effective measures against the increasingly frequent attacks on medical and nursing staff.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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