The uneasy situation regarding family doctors is also growing in Cassano. Numerous citizens, in particular from the hamlet of Lauropoli, report that a Two general practitioners will retire at the end of the month and it is not known if, how and by whom they could be replaced given the shortage.
«By collecting their requests – they complain from the spontaneous Committee of citizens for the protection of public health of the spa city – for the resident population, in particular for the elderly and disabled people, it would create an objective difficulty in reaching other centers».
In the absence of a hospital, in fact, and with the now well-known shortcomings of the clinic in via Ponte Nuovo, the doctor remains the main point of reference and the only healthcare facility. The competent authorities need to take charge of the issue so that the pool of available doctors is expanded also considering the vastness of the Cassano territory made up of three populous hamlets, districts and various rural areas.
