Nuoro, citizens and associations in the streets for the right to health

"Politics has to sit around a table and solve problems, there is no more time to waste because here we can no longer cure ourselves". It is a passage from the speech of Andrea Soddu, mayor of Nuoro, a city that today hosted a new, participatory demonstration for the right to health.

In Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, citizens and associations, mayors, regional and parliamentary councilors, as well as trade unions gathered. The initiative, promoted by the association of cancer patients "Vivere a colori", was organized after the suspension of activities in the Surgery Department of the San Francesco hospital , then resumed but without guarantees.

"We are here to make a common front and prevent the dismantling of the San Francesco hospital and local health care. This is no longer the Oncology department, all the departments on the verge of collapse", explains Marilena Pintore, leader of the association.

"In every ward of the hospital there is a shortage of 7 to 8 doctors, 100 general practitioners are missing and people can no longer be treated. Enough of the semi-private policy for general practitioners who sometimes have to serve 5 countries paying 5 different clinics. And enough with the limited number policy to enter Medicine wanted by the current Government. There is a petition to the European Commission because no one has the right to put the right to health in arrears ", explained Bustianu Cumpostu , leader of Sardigna Natzione.

"We have started - echoes Francesca Ticca, UIL secretary, - a march for health that will not stop and the local politicians present here must bring the result home. There are no doctors, nurses and paramedics. We must immediately ban the competitions, send at home the commissioners who have smashed the health and make the Assl operational. Today is health, tomorrow will be the school and essential services, they are trying to desertify Central Sardinia ".

"When politics takes it into its head to solve problems, it manages to solve them," said Mayor Soddu. Adding: “Central Sardinia health is a problem to be solved. And we will never let go until it's solved ",

(Unioneonline / lf)