Clamorous in Stromboli, the Viviano journalist fractures the femur and is transferred to the hospital on a bricklayer’s motorcycle

There is no working ambulance in Stromboli and an Ape motorcycle is used to transport a man with the fractured femur: this is what happened to Francesco Viviano, historical journalist and correspondent of the Republic. He tells him himself: «These are the ambulances in Stromboli – he says, making himself resumed while he was placed on the platform of the motorcycle Ape – I had been in Stromboli for three days, I fell and I broke a femur. How to take me to the helicopter rescue track and then reach a hospital in Messina? The good and kind doctor of the island’s medical guard gets his hands in his hair. For months the only ambulance has spoken and with the island full of tourists the various managers of the ASP have done nothing. The doctor takes a tour of phone calls and finally finds an Ape motorcycle of a bricklayer who is moved and lends himself to accompany me to the Elipist of Stromboli. Two Moroccan bricklayers assist me as nurses and finally I am on board the helicopter with destination Papardo di Messina hospital who had already agreed my hospitalization with the medical guard of Stromboli. I enter the barella in the emergency room and I’m four hours waiting. Nobody considers me. Then I spatiently ask a doctor who passed what my fate would be. ‘He still didn’t know, he replies. What does it mean? ‘It means that from tomorrow our orthopedics department closes for holidays. A provision given by voice and therefore is not communicated to anyone or to the medical guards of the Messina district nor to the helicopter rescue “. Finally after four hours of “useless waiting for the Papardo – continues Viviano – without anyone giving me a glass of water, they transfer me to the Polyclinic of Messina. Fortunately, it is in another story, fast triage, real -time exams, and surgery the next day fortunately successful. Here, excellent president of the Schifani region, face blitz in the hospitals of the minor islands that flock to the inverted in the summer. In Stromboli there is no ambulance and I believe that none of his diligent officials and councilors – concludes Francesco Viviano – have communicated to him “.