Speaks Andi Nganso, one of the “hired” doctors who worked at night in the emergency room
ORISTANO. “In Oristano I saw the face of the country’s social and health laceration. The services that slowly begin to fail. Patients’ territorial care needs are changing. The mixture of poverty and health is presenting here and there the important signs of weakness of the country’s welfare system. And this can be seen a lot in the suburbs ». Lucid, rational, free from any emphasis, apart from a hint of gratitude when he describes the land where he was a guest, even if for work: “Oristano, the capital of a delightful, reserved, intimate province”. Reading the post written on social media by Andi Nganso, a “rented” doctor, or as he prefers to call himself “itinerant”, who worked in the San Martino emergency room for 20 days, it seems to have the report of a commission under his eyes of inquiry. However, Dr. Nganso is not only a precarious doctor, but an activist who has been fighting against all kinds of discrimination for years. Graduated in Medicine at the University of Varese, 34, originally from Cameroon, he has been in Italy since 2006. Returning to the Peninsula, he recounts as a direct witness to his experience in Oristano public health, where doctors are becoming a rarity. “In Oristano I listened to the precious words of a colleague, who made me understand that her beloved community needed a greater commitment in the social and health field to solve the many problems of improper access to the emergency room”, he writes, quoting the words of his colleague : “People don’t know where to turn when they’re home. They come for a caress, a word of comfort; of the services from the territory “. His is a “privileged” observation point for those who, in an emergency room for years now in trouble, have been a direct witness: “I made a contribution to the emergency room team of this hospital, so central to the well-being of the citizens of central Sardinia, less important in the eyes of those who do not dedicate all the caresses that would serve them to resist the wind of the social and health shortages of this gloomy period ». Then the approach with not too veiled intolerance: «During a night of work, I discovered the face of marginalization, the trauma of racism and exclusion, seen from the perspective of the country’s periphery. Dario joined the PS and during the clinical interview he said: “no one can understand what it means to be me, here. It’s hard. Dario – he writes – is in Aristanis after being adopted in adolescence: he couldn’t stand up and he managed to hold back his anger. I wondered what it meant to be the only black person in the rooms of Oristano, not of Milan, of Oristano, of Cabras, of Ploaghe. I promised myself to think about it. ”