Three hundred meters, four minutes on foot. Alessandra Todde and Renato Soru, the two candidates from the centre-left area - Campo Largo and Coalition Sardinia - met in Oristano, not far from each other. She at the Garau theatre, a stone's throw from the Mariano tower, he at the San Martino theatre, further down towards the Cathedral. Same time, same themes. Almost as if to mark themselves tightly. Both talked about healthcare, both had zero comments on the current council.
«Nowadays healthcare is no longer public, but private. They are changing the model right under our noses, without telling us anything. Yet it is a universal right and must remain so", said the M5S deputy in front of a full audience. «Territorial assistance has been dismantled, people go to emergency rooms because they no longer know who to turn to. Our first objective is to restore healthcare in the territories. As? The staff was concentrated in the main hospitals, especially in Cagliari. To be able to reverse the trend, we need to build a support network for general practitioners , who are like pandas, they must be protected and preserved", explained Todde, who then also proposed a revision of the limited number system in universities.
Soru on the other stage, in via Ciutadella de Menorca: «The Sardinia Region today is among the Italian Regions that spend the most on social policies – he said – but it is not doing it in the best way and we have seen it especially in this last legislature. Instead we must return to caring about the possibility of giving a future to those people who think they no longer have one: for me these are social policies." «Socio-health policies – he underlined – must be planned locally on the basis of tailor-made analyzed needs and collaboration between the regional system and that of local autonomies , such as the Municipalities, and through the involvement of the third sector in the field».
On school: «School dropout is not just school dropout: school dropout is social dropout . School is important because it is not only the moment of education for a job, but above all it is the moment of cultural growth, of understanding oneself, one's potential, one's talent, one's passions but also one's role in a community".
(Unioneonline)
