Accidents at work, in Nuoro and throughout the province there is a medical emergency. Anyone who is injured at work and cannot work also remains without compensation. There are those who have been waiting for six months and those who have even been waiting for a year.

The Nuoro branch of the Inail (Institute for accidents at work) is paralyzed because it has no doctors. He doesn't even have one. In Barbagia the only doctors who deal with injuries arrive two or three times a month from Cagliari. A situation which the Nuoro offices define as "dramatic", with hundreds of injured people (a total of 1679 proceedings are open in 2023) who cannot work but are also without the liquidation or indemnity guaranteed by Inail which cannot endorse it because there is no they are doctors for visits.

Administrative procedures carried out quickly become stuck in a swamp that is impossible to overcome. A bottleneck that the national institute has been unable to find a remedy for for some time. The last retirement in Nuoro in November 2022, when the orthopedist left: since then it has not been possible to replace him.

The numbers are merciless. All six doctors that the Nuoro office should have are missing. Not only are the three medical directors not present but also the affiliated ones: the occupational doctor, the two forensic doctors and the orthopaedist. There are many testimonies. «I had an accident on the company», says an agricultural entrepreneur, «I did everything I had to, but since October I have been waiting in vain for a liquidation. Last time the offices explained to me that they don't have doctors to even look at the documents. I've been waiting for five months for the application, but they told me that to go well I'll have to wait at least one or two months."

In short, the historic province of Nuoro which has collected black jersey numbers in Sardinia in terms of safety in the workplace is also last in post-injury terms.