Brescia: died of meningitis at the hospital a little girl of 5 years – Blasting News

Doctors and health care personnel, in addition of course to the representatives of the Ministry of health, continue to reassure us. The cases of #meningitis are not attributable to a’epidemic, we can be calm. How can I keep calm when day after day they still feel new cases of death? This morning the victim is a girl of 5 years to Brescia.

Brescia struck down by meningitis, another young life

A girl five years died in theCivil Hospital of Brescia, meningitis. The girl was admitted in the hospital in just two days. The cause of death was meningitis, one of the forms caused by infections of pneumococcus. It is, as the doctors say of a bacterium not contagious, so do not be afraid. The infection may not take place.

The little patient lived with his family in Inzino, which is a fraction of the well-known Gardone Valtrompia. there has been no provision of prophylaxis mandatory, even if the child was attending the nursery school. Now will be the Region Lombardy to start a procedure to find out all about the death of the small of just five years.

Giulio explore the old councillor for lombardy Welfare, declares: “We will activate commission of inquiry”

Now you will need to determine any liability ofhospital in which it was admitted the small, says Giulio explore the old, councillor lombardo and Welfare. “We’ll see if the company has done all what he could do for an immediate diagnosis and early stage of the disease,” said explore the old, on the phone,“.

“From the first analyses made by the company, it seems that the girl was brought to the emergency department on a Friday afternoon or Saturday, with symptoms that were considered to influence, and that after 12-14 hours when it is returned it is already in a situation now compromised: immediately acted to address it as a pneumococcal meningitis“.

The girl comes from Pakistan and is protected. In Lombardy, the vaccination is not compulsory, but free. In the month of December, an entrepreneur, 59-year-old, Renato Goffi, died of meningitis meningococcal type C. The bacterium did take prophylaxis, because contagious. A legitimate question due to the constant cases in Italy: “I don’t Really have to worry about?”