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Antonia Sanna is a retired nurse born in Sardinia in 1954 to a family

with little economic opportunity. Dr Sanna had good skills

school and the university address she was interested in taking was in Turin so, at the age of

18 years old, after obtaining classical maturity in Oristano, he decided to move to Piedmont.

To support his studies, he went to work in a community that welcomed mothers

who provided her with food and lodging in return. At the same time, he enrolled in the Faculty of

Biology, health address. It was a very difficult time for her that also led her to decide

to abandon his studies.

With the passage of time and thanks to the work he carried out, he found himself interested in the role of

"health worker", figures present in the community where he stayed and worked. So in the

1975 she enrolled at the school for nurses at the Maria Vittoria hospital in Turin for

continuing to attend the school for health care in Turin, run by the Cross

Red, a path that represented a turning point in what will be his career.

Following his graduation, Antonia held an interview for the role

nursing director at a school in Milan. He passed the selection but had to refuse

the offer to look after her sister Clementina who at the age of 18 was hit by a crisis

hemolytic and at the suggestion of the doctors he moved to Turin in search of a diagnosis and a

more accurate care.

For a short time she worked as a nurse at Fiat, but soon gave up that job

to become a professor of nursing at the hospital in Rivoli, and he was able to reach the

health and training, proving in this a great deal of

satisfaction culminated in the achievement of the Master's degree.