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

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 Hospital in Verbania for eight years. You can see the frustration in his eyes as he looks around.