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Health care: ASL 8, ARNAS Brotzu (level II DEA) and AOU Cagliari

The area falls under ASL no. 8 of Cagliari, which runs the SS. Trinità and the Binaghi in the city. High-specialisation care is at the ARNAS Brotzu — San Michele (level II DEA), Businco and Microcitemico — and at the AOU of Cagliari (San Giovanni di Dio and Policlinico Duilio Casula). GP registration online with SPID/CIE or at the Cittadella della Salute on via Romagna.

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ASL 8 and its hospitals

Community care is run by ASL no. 8 of Cagliari, the local health and social care authority, with its registered and operational seat at the Ospedale Marino, viale Lungomare Poetto 12 (switchboard 070 6091). In the city the ASL runs the Santissima Trinità hospital at via Is Mirrionis 92 and the Roberto Binaghi at via Is Guadazzonis 2, as well as family counselling centres, specialist clinics and mental health centres.

Brotzu and AOU

High-specialisation care is concentrated in the ARNAS "G. Brotzu" (piazzale Alessandro Ricchi 1, switchboard 070 5391), which combines the San Michele hospital, a level II DEA with adult and paediatric emergency departments (in 2025 the trust recorded 47,245 ER visits plus 20,420 paediatric ones), the "Armando Businco" cancer hospital and the "Antonio Cao" Microcitemico children's hospital. The Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Cagliari operates the San Giovanni di Dio hospital, on via Ospedale, and the "Duilio Casula" university hospital (Policlinico).

GP registration

You choose or change your GP and paediatrician online, with SPID, CIE or the CNS health card, on the regional portal sceltamedico-zente.sardegnasalute.it, or at the ASL's Scelta e Revoca office at the Cittadella della Salute, pavilion C, via Romagna 16 (tel. 070 6096204; Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30–11:00). Out-of-area ("in deroga") choices can only be made at the desk.

Opening hours, locations, numbers and rules change often: check the ASL 8 Cagliari website (asl8cagliari.it), the ARNAS Brotzu and the AOU Cagliari sites before going in person.

Sources

ASL n. 8 di Cagliari – Azienda socio-sanitaria locale, portale istituzionale· ASL Cagliari

Updated: 2026-10-15

ASL n. 8 di Cagliari – Ospedali e strutture sanitarie (SS. Trinità, Binaghi)· ASL Cagliari

Updated: 2026-10-15

ASL n. 8 di Cagliari – Scelta e revoca del medico online e Ufficio Scelta e Revoca (Cittadella della Salute)· ASL Cagliari

Updated: 2026-10-15

ARNAS G. Brotzu di Cagliari – portale istituzionale (San Michele DEA II, Businco, Microcitemico)· ARNAS G. Brotzu

Updated: 2026-10-15

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Cagliari – portale istituzionale· AOU Cagliari

Updated: 2026-10-15

Reviewed: 10/23/2026 · by piero.avolio · rev. 1 · Period: → 2027-04-30

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