Three hospitals filled, newborn dies in an ambulance. Mattarella: “I am … – the Journal

Three hospitals filled, newborn dies in an ambulance. Mattarella: "I am … – the Journal

A new episode of serious malpractice upsets Italy. Occurred in Sicily, where a baby died in the ambulance that was transferring to Dubrovnik Catania , where there was no place in the pediatric intensive care available to receive it . On the case were opened two judicial investigations: the first in Ragusa, in whose territory the death occurred in the small, the second was opened in Catania, where the family of the little Nicole have filed a complaint. The prosecutor of Catania, which is proceeding for the acts of urgency, ordered the seizure of the medical records in the private nursing home where the child came to light, the clinic Gibino. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella telephoned the President of the Region of Sicily, Rosario Crocetta, expressing his “disbelief” for each other.

But back to the facts: what is the delivery was smooth, but right after the little he had a respiratory crisis. Doctors have tried in vain for a place in the intensive care unit and resuscitation of Catania and then alerted the 118. It had been found a place in the hospital in Ragusa, but the child died before you get there. The Department of Health of the Sicilian Region has initiated an administrative investigation, and managers of hospitals in Catania were summoned for tomorrow the Councillor Lucia Borsellino. The Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin has expressed “outrage” over the tragedy, and announced that he had asked “an immediate relationship” and that it had provided the inspectors.

Controls forensic have been already made in the ambulance used to transport from Catania to Ragusa little Nicole. You want to check if the vehicle was likely to be used to transport so delicate and if it were equipped with the necessary equipment to deal with an emergency
respiratory. “We express sorrow for the family and express sympathy for the death of the small,” they say from the nursing home Gibino, that assuredly “is cooperating with authorities
competent and investigators to provide in detail the clinical picture of the child at the time and after birth. “

In the nursing home report that” at birth showed little critical health conditions requiring neonatal resuscitation and immediate transfer of a Unit in the NICU (Utin), once stabilized vital signs. “