Cairo Montenotte. Not even a splendid spring sun wanted to miss thelong-awaited appointment in defense of the hospital in Cairo.
Hundreds of Valbormidesi arrived in Piazza della Vittoria to “embrace” the San Giuseppe and give a strong sign of belonging to the territory. Mayors, administrators, associations, trade unions, health workers but also many citizens have accepted the invitation to come together to raise their voices on what is an inalienable right: health. What everyone agrees on is the aspect concerning emergencies: one cannot live in an area with mountain characteristics, with communication routes often interrupted by landslides or accidents, without first aid.
This is the first questionable appealwhich passes through the urgent conversion of the first intervention point (currently open twelve hours a day) into a 24-hour garrison, with the reinforcement of a second car.
L’community hospitalwhat would be in the sanitary plan of the governor Giovanni Toti for the Val Bormida, nobody likes it. In fact, a diagnostic plate is not enough, it is needed more for the forty thousand residents of the territory on which the towns of Val d’Erro and southern Piedmont also gravitate.
To reiterate the concept, at the beginning of the event the the president of the health committee Giuliano Fasolato, who introduced the march to embrace the hospital, followed by an accurate report by Graziana Pastorino. March that crossed the heart of the city and the historic center, with all the shutters of the commercial activities lowered as a sign of solidarity with the request not to further weaken the hospital.
In Cairo, the “embrace” at the hospital: the people of Valbormida in the square
From piazza della Vittoria, through the central via Roma the demonstrators arrived in corso Mazzini and corso Danteand from there they split into streets from which you reach the San Giuseppe.
Submit a large Albenganian and Alassian delegationincluding the mayor of Albenga Riccardo Tomatis and city associations, as a sign of closeness to the initiative to protect the Cairese hospital, with a direct reference to the previous demonstration that took place in defense of the Albenga hospital.
“Today in Cairo Montenotte great participation to the ‘Embrace the Hospital’ initiative. Thousands of people and dozens of mayors (including center-right ones) took to the streets – says the regional councilor of the Democratic Party Roberto Arboscello -. La Valbormida loudly reiterates the need for a hospital facility capable of responding to the emergency / urgency issue, not for a health platform that has only the name of a hospital but no service “.
“The territory asks attention and services different than those proposed by the Toti Council. As in Albenga a few weeks ago, citizens are asking the Region to be heard ”.
“I will immediately bring into question the classification ofSan Giuseppe hospital in Cairo as a disadvantaged area hospital. The millions of euros arriving from the Pnrr they must be invested to meet the needs of that territory and its citizens ”, concludes Councilor Dem.
Also present at the cairese event Opposition regional councilor Ferruccio Sansa, which underlines how “the Liguria Region has forgotten the Valbormida, not only of health but of the whole territory. It is time to go back to work for this hinterland which has given so much, over time, in terms of employment and work ”.