There are twelve doctors investigated, that is, all except the primary Paul’s Neck and his right arm Emilio Lomeo, absent at the time. There are the acts: the complaint was delivered to the Prosecutor’s office and the accusation of culpable homicide in a multi-load of the entire department of gynecology and obstetrics of the hospital Canizzaro (Catania). And there are the facts: a young mother who dies with her twins in fact never been born. Valentina has 32 years old, is pregnant of 5 months, assisted fertilization. From September 29 al15 October, the take care of to Canizzaro for a suspected dilatation of the uterus. On Saturday morning you feel sick: vomiting and excruciating pain. Fever that rises to 38 and a half. Give paracetamol, explains to his lawyer. At three in the afternoon of October 15, the do an ultrasound, but Valentina (the law in the exposed delivered to the pm, Fabio Saponara) is getting worse and worse.
Screams from the pain for four hours, still refers to the defender Salvatore Milluzzo. And it is precisely at that stage of serious illness, one of the two fetuses showing signs of suffering. Even a minute can be so fatal. It asks for the intervention of the gynaecologist, but he refuses declaring himself a conscientious objector. “Up to when the fetus is alive, I will not intervene” according to the lawyer, they would be these words. In fact, the gineco – logo does not intervene. The heart of the child, stops beating, and without life, they do see to the mother, who continues to dolorare. Spend a few hours, and the
according to the fetus comes out spontaneously from the uterus. Died, even him. This time, Valentina is spared the sight. She is very bad, it is now the dead of night. Sepsis, the diagnosis. It is very serious. Resuscitation. At two in the afternoon he dies.
Could be saved Valentina? The dossier and the hypothesis of a multiple murder are due. Needed to give the possibility to the physicians involved to defend themselves and be present during the autopsy to establish the cause of death. Meanwhile, Paul’s Neck, who is also the president of the Italian Society of gynaecology and obstetrics, defends his doctors: “they Are all the objectors in my department,” says “we do not intervene until the heart of the fetus beating. In this case there was a miscarriage, the doctor has acted correctly diagnosing
sepsis”. But if the woman had been practiced abortion in a timely manner? A judge will have to ascertain if he could be saved. In the meantime, the attention of the Prosecutor’s office, they let us know that “is concentrated on the verification, through the clinical protocols of intervention and assistance provided to the patient, in addition to the controls to which it was subjected during the ho spitalization and, in particular, during the crisis that preceded the death”. It goes without saying the sending (usually) at the hospital of the inspectors of the minister Beatrice Lorenzin. Proven practice, but not always useful. It is the moment of pain.
But also to the controversy. “There are still women who die because hospitals are not to be assisted because of the medical objectors” protest Beatrice Bignone of the movement of Foo There – vati. “And this is the sense, if we find one, of this terrible history.” The member of Can has question the urgent to the minister Lorenzin: “I have deemed it” explains “why not just send the aw – ri in the hospital. We are facing a direct consequence of the wrong policies and that we denounce for months now is that the application of the law 194 on abortion can in hospitals is a right of all women. The presence of doctors objectors must be ensured in order to avoid tragic endings like this.”
Elvira Moran of the Cgil Sicily, calls for the establishment of a technical table: “beyond that to which leads the inquiry,” says the trade unionist “we ask for a comparison in front of a technical board, because the respect of the standards imposed by the ministry and the freedom of doctors objectors may not result in the denial of the right to life of women. After a tragic event,” says Morana “are immediately initiated inspections by the ministry and the department of health but stops there; it does not proceed to a reading with the social partners of the needs and problems of women and on the adequacy of the procedures of care”. After that Drills a 26-year-old is dead before giving birth (maybe for embolism) in Sicily is the second death in six days.
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