canoe stuck in the river. The family donates organs – Corriere.it
The boy who was the victim of last Thursday’s accident didn’t make it. Thanks from the Gaslini hospital for the gesture of the mother: Enormous gratitude
He fought with all his might, the little wren — as his friends called him — but he didn’t make it. Andrea Demattei died at the age of 14. He had been hospitalized since Thursday 12 January in the Dib resuscitation department of the Gaslini hospital in Genoa after an accident with his canoe in the Entella river, in Chiavari. The 14-year-old’s mother has agreed to donate her son’s organs. Decision for which the management of Gaslini has expressed enormous gratitude.
Andrea was a keen canoeing practitioner. The boy was in force at Shock Waves Sport, an amateur association. When his canoe overturned causing him to end up underwater, stuck against a pylon of the Maddalena bridge, he was together with an instructor and five other teenagers. The group was walking upriver from the mouth to train. Everyone was wearing life jackets and safety devices, Andrea might have been betrayed by the current, but the hull was blocked against the deck by a large trunk transported by the flood.
In the previous days it had rained a lot and the river was dirty. The boy’s instructor stayed in the water with him trying to make him breathe but couldn’t save him. To free him from the canoe had required the intervention of divers from the fire brigade. The Demattei family, assisted by the lawyer Rachele De Stefanis, pointed the finger at the disorganization of the relief efforts which could have been timely but, according to them, there would have been no coordination; perhaps if he had been agitated differently Andrea’s condition would not have been so desperate explained the lawyer.
dfter the news of the death, the Genoa prosecutor’s office opened a file: the public prosecutor Francesco Cardona Albini will order checks in the scheduled hours to understand if there have been precise responsibilities. Andrea Demattei lived in Sestri Levante. On social networks, these days, many messages of support from schoolmates but also from many strangers: Don’t give up, you have to go back to your mother and your little sister. A team of psychologists from Gaslini is following Andrea’s motherwho a few years ago was left a widow, and of her little daughter.
January 16, 2023 (change January 16, 2023 | 20:53)
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