Hospitals Without Doctors: The Decline Of Italy's Public Healthcare System

Hospitals Without Doctors: The Decline Of Italy's Public Healthcare System

VERBANIA – A hospital with no doctors and no nurses.A slow death? "No, a very quick one. If nothing changes soon, in two years, the hospitals in Verbania and Domodossola [in Italy's northwestern Piedmont region] will be gone. No one wants to work here anymore. That’s just the reality. And there’s a reason for it," says Filippo Garboli, a nurse and member of the Nurse Up Labor Union who has been working in the emergency room at Giuseppe Castelli …