Transplanted child, rapidly deteriorating condition
Bolzano public prosecutor's office widens investigation into the Monaldi Hospital case in Naples: ice supply in the crosshairs
In the last 12 hours, the clinical condition of the child from Naples, who had a 'burnt' heart transplanted two months ago, has deteriorated further, progressively and rapidly. This was announced by the Monaldi hospital in the bulletin on the child's condition.
In the meantime, a meeting between the doctors of the Monaldi hospital and the child's family and lawyers has ended. The meeting saw the doctors describe in detail the new therapy that provides for the alleviation of suffering by halting the futile therapy after the inauspicious prognosis linked to the impossibility of a new transplant. The child will not be disconnected from the Ecmo, the extracorporeal breathing and circulation machine that has kept him alive for the past two months, a choice that would have an immediately lethal effect. Instead, other therapies that are no longer needed, such as microfiltration of blood, will be eliminated.
The new therapy will now be scheduled as agreed and applied to the child. It is apathway that avoids therapeutic letdown. "It is the most humane thing," said the family's lawyer.
And the number of people under investigation is set to grow: the acts of the investigation opened in Bolzano following the complaint filed by Federconsumatori Napoli, in which culpable responsibility for death or personal injury in the health sector is hypothesised, will arrive in the capital of Campania. It is not ruled out that the investigators may soon enter high-altesine health professionals in the register of suspects. The spotlight, in particular, is on the ice supply.
Saturday torchlight procession for Domenico in his parents' home town
The small community of Taurano, in the province of Avellino, clings to Antonio and Patrizia, the parents of little Domenico, originally from the Vallo di Lauro centre, whose case has moved and outraged Italy. The little boy, two years and four months old, had undergone a heart transplant at the 'Monaldi' hospital in Naples: the organ that had been removed in Bolzano, despite being irreparably damaged, was transplanted anyway by the Neapolitan hospital team. The mayor, Michele Buonfiglio, has promoted a torch-lit prayer procession for Saturday at 6 p.m. that will leave from the municipal villa for the convent of San Giovanni del Palco, where mass will be celebrated. Antonio and Patrizia, who left Taurano a few years ago to move to Nola, will be present. The participation of the President of the Region, Roberto Fico, is also announced.
