Verona, «Citrobacter unprecedented case»: the pool of experts at work is asking for more time
And today those 120 days have passed … We hope there will be news soon. For you 4 hearts (ex infants who unfortunately are not survivorslived, ed), for the 9 children who were operated on, for the 100 who were mildly infected, and for the many who “maybe” we saved from this Russian roulette. So he wrote in a to send published 48 hours ago (Wednesday 18 May) Elisa Bettini: she and Francesca Frezza are the mothers-courage who for two years have been stubbornly supporting truth and justice on the cursed Citrobacter. This is the deadly killer bacterium that in 2020 caused the scandal to explode, forcing the temporary closure for reclamation and rehabilitation of the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units at the Hospital for Women and Children in Borgo Trento. The 120 days referred to by Elisa on Facebook are the 4 months granted by the Verona Public Prosecutor’s Office to the pool of experts for the filing of the super-report, on the outcome of which the future developments of the investigation by the prosecutor Maria Diletta Schiaffino on Citrobacter for manslaughter will depend multiple and culpable injury. Waiting for two days ago on the second floor of the former Mastino, the delivery of the fundamental mega expertise for not having taken place.
The extension
Thus it turns out that the experts appointed by the Verona Prosecutor have asked for more time to complete their analysis: it is in fact an unprecedented case. and whose complexity is proving to be higher than expected. Many of the expert operations were also carried out in streaming due to the coronavirus, a circumstance that further complicated the already complex work by extending the times. All the reasons on the basis of which the head of the pool of consultants requested and obtained an extension of two months for the filing of the crucial results of the maxi report. The wait for Francesca and Elisa, the mothers of Nina and Alice, two of the four hearts that, due to Citrobacter Koseri, did not make it to win the battle for life, is therefore prolonged. Like the two courageous mothers, there are many others whose children have been hit, most of whom fortunately without fatal consequences, by the terrible killer bacterium while they were hospitalized in the most important birth point in Veneto, that of Verona ended up in the center of the storm. During the investigations it emerged that the infamous Citrobacter had nestled in the user’s tap by the staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care of the Hospital of the Woman and Child of Borgo Trento: the cascade effect had been chilling, just think that according to what was ascertained by the Regional Technical Commission 4 children were killed in two years and another 96 hit.
Experts at work
In December, prosecutor Schiaffino appointed 4 super experts: they are professors of forensic medicine, neonatology, microbiology and clinical analyzes. They must shed light on the deaths and irreversible damage of the children who contracted Citrobacter between 2018 and 2020: a blow that sees investigated for multiple homicide and culpable seven between doctors and managers. In January, the maxi appraisal aimed at ascertaining the causes of death of the injured persons began (Nina in 2019, was 7 months; Alice in 2020, five months; Leonardo again in 2020, five and a half months and Elisabeth, in 2018, only three weeks olded) and injuries (Davide, Maria, Benedetta, Jacopo, Barbara, Fares, who survived the infection but with irreversible damage, ed). The defendants of the suspects have also appointed 12 partisan consultants, while the lawyer of the injured party Matteo Frezza has also appointed his own consultant. In total, therefore, there are 17 experts who are confronting each other in the complex investigations on which the outcome of the investigations depends. A super appraisal in streaming whose results will arrive, except for further extensions, in another 60 days.
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May 20, 2022 (change May 20, 2022 | 09:55)
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