Child of 4 years, struck by meningitis C – The Tyrrhenian sea

CASCINA.Back to the alarm meningitis. A child of 4 years who is resident in the cascinese is hospitalized in serious condition in the intensive care unit of the pediatric hospital Meyer of Florence after being hit by a meningitis type C. this was made known by a press release by the Usl Tuscany North-West. The child had been vaccinated in 2013.

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The Meyer children’s hospital, has made known that it has been confirmed by the laboratory of immunology in the diagnosis of sepsis, meningococcal type C. The small is hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Its the conditions, stated in the note of Meyer, are serious and the doctors are reserved prognosis. The child was hospitalized in the first moment to the Cisanello hospital of Pisa.

Hygiene and public health of Asl of Tuscany north-west is contacting all those who have come in contact with the child, who attends the nursery school “Panda” of the farm, to perform the prophylaxis. For this the health care “they are contacting all the parents and children who have had contact with the patient, in particular the companions of the school, those present yesterday, 16 November, in the surgery of the pediatrician Maria Frija of Cascina and those who attended the party, which was held in Bientina (Pisa) in the complex Bientiland, last Saturday”. “The Asl – the note concludes – stresses that are not required special measures of prophylaxis in the school environment or the recreational, but enough to ventilate the premises”

The Asl informs that the surgeries of the Galleria Gerace in Pisa (first floor) will be open throughout the afternoon and tomorrow morning from 8.30 to 12.30. For information is available the toll-free number 800177744.