Eight medical guards leave their post. The Order: the system no longer works

The shortage of professionals also puts local services in crisis: closures or limited hours in four out of nine areas

BELLUNO. He criticizes the shortage of doctors in the province of Belluno. This is well known not only by the hospitals where some departments have been waiting for professionals for months to cope with normal activities, but also the territory that not only suffers from the lack of general practitioners, but now also from those of continuity of assistance, the so-called guards. medical those, to understand, that come into action on weekends, holidays and days before holidays in place of the family doctor.