Hot, dying nurse jogging. In Genoa “red stamp” and heat to the bitter end
Genoa. He was running in the sun at 9am when he suddenly felt sick and collapsed to the ground. So today a nurse of the Asl 4 of Chiavari died, Roberto Caponera, struck down by an arrest cardiocirculatory most likely the accomplice hot record which has been gripping Liguria for more than a week and will not give up even in the next few days.
Help was useless: when he arrived at the hospital the man was already dead. It would be the second case in Liguria after that of the 47-year-old dishwasher who died in the hotel where he worked in Diano Marina, in the Imperia area. The man, of North African origins, had been rescued by the hotel staff who called 118. He had also for him, however, there was nothing more to do. Investigations are now underway by the carabinieri to reconstruct the story.
Only a few days ago in Genoa24 he was the director of the emergency room of the Galliera hospital, Paolo Cremonesinot only the elderly, and those at risk, show up in hospital young and healthy people who practice dangerous behaviors: practice sports during the hottest hours or undergo prolonged exposure to the sun on the beach.
The bulletin of the Ministry of Health provides “Red dot” in Genoa also on Sunday: the maximum expected temperature is 30 degrees, but due to the high humidity level, 36 degrees will be perceived. The Ligurian capital is marked with the highest level of risk since last Wednesday, after several days of temperatures well above the seasonal average.
Even today, in the meantime, the highest temperatures were recorded in Val di Vara, with a maximum of 36.6 degrees in Beverino. In the center of Genoa the thermometer did not exceed i 32.5 degrees.
For Sunday Arpal foresees “another humid and sultry day with coastal densification especially in the morning associated with local, weak drizzles on the center of the region. Mounds with diurnal evolution in the hinterland where isolated showers or thunderstorms are not excluded. Steady or rising temperature. Weak southerly winds or in cyclonic rotation in the morning ”. Something could change Monday thanks to a disturbance that will approach from France in the evening.
“The entire community of ASL 4 operators, together with the president and councilor for health of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti – writes the Tigullio health company in a note – they join the pain of the family of colleague Roberto Caponeraearlier and died prematurely this morning due to illness ”.
“To the grief and the memory in these moments of bewilderment and disbelief – adds the general manager of Asl 4, Paul Petralia – is accompanied by the awareness of a professional career lived by Roberto at the service of the sick in the operating room, a concrete and substantial contribution to the care and healing of many of them “.