Sinnai, Doctor Lobina takes up the scalpel again after 7 years of retirement and returns to work
The professional has accepted the temporary invitation of the ASL: he works in Ogliastra
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After seven years of retirement , the return to surgery and the scalpel .
Aldo Lobina, a surgeon from Sinnai with a passion for politics and agriculture, has returned to don the white coat he gave up a long time ago: for a few days now he has been a surgeon at the hospital in Lanusei, after having done so for decades at the Marino in Cagliari.
"I understand the wonder caused by the choice to get back into the game," he says: "Seven years ago, after 42 years and 10 months of contributions useful for the pension, I left the hospital activity." And yet, now that there is a need for doctors, he has not backed down .
«I knew well, and I know, that our life is made up of stages, of paths that have a beginning and an end».
And yet, a person does not stop being a doctor the day he retires. Are those who are doctors forever?
"Certainly. For this reason, having been voted by vocation to that profession, when the general management of the ASL of Lanusei, through Dr. Gusai, head of Surgery at the Lanusei hospital, called me to lend a hand, I embraced it again, in its complexity and full qualification. For a few days I have returned to the ward and the operating room willingly . I have found valuable colleagues and prepared staff in a hospital structurally ready to host various specialist activities".
Emotions?
«With great surprise I was greeted by the mayor of Lanusei, Davide Burchi, who expressed his appreciation and gratitude towards me for my contribution to keeping alive a service reality necessary for Ogliastra».
A long experience, his.
"After obtaining various qualifications, I specialized, at 30 years of age; immediately after, the national qualification as a chief of general surgery, which came when I had already been working in the hospital for seven years. The intense surgical practice, carried out in an emergency surgery and emergency room department of the Marino, was one of the worlds in which I immersed myself. I tried to reconcile work with family affections and two passions: politics, born in adolescence, and agriculture, more adult. I lived - and live - seeking a possible balance between these activities".
What is your opinion on today's healthcare?
"In Italy and Sardinia we suffer from poor health policy because over time there has been a lack of adequate planning, linked to the hiring of staff but not only: many hospitals have been closed (in Cagliari the Marino, the San Giovanni and the Binaghi) and citizens are paying for those choices on their skin. Now, to correct something it was necessary to turn to those who were retired like me and could give some contribution of experience. I have signed a freelance work contract (for a period) with that ASL and I will gladly carry it out as long as it is deemed useful and my strength, so far sufficient, will allow it".
Surgeon, city councilor, farmer: all for passion?
"My world. So I can only be satisfied. Of course, it is worrying that today in Sardinia there is a shortage of 500 doctors and that in 2026 another 320 will retire."
