Press Release 07/2012
Mayor Beniamino Scarpa asks the ASL the appointment of a full-time medical
Mayor Beniamino Scarpa asked the ASL of Sassari to identify a new pulmonologist for the health service of Porto Torres. For nearly a month of the Practice Andriolu section dedicated to the care of respiratory illness does not have a referring physician. "In recent weeks our community has suddenly lost a great man and a good practitioner, Dr. Gigi Elect. Since early January, the service of pneumology clinic, which was conducted by Dr. elect its own, is suspended, "said Mayor Beniamino Scarpa. For now, the ASL has not appointed a replacement. "In the city of Porto Torres - adds the mayor - there is a high incidence of respiratory diseases and are more than a thousand operations performed annually. The users are complaining about the lack of disruption to service, among other things used by people who live in the hamlets of Nura and neighboring centers. It is then essential that the new doctor who will be identified as responsible for the pulmonary Porto Torres is committed to full-time, to guarantee the same services previously provided, either in the clinic or at home, so they are also assisted the broncopatici in need of oxygen. " Beniamino Scarpa hopes, therefore, "that action is taken early in the reactivation of the service, with the same time and same mode of development that were in place until a few weeks ago."
