(ANSA) – ANCONA, 11 FEB – It is correct to use Thiopentone for medically assisted suicide requested by Mario, a 44 year old quadriplegic from the Marche region who has engaged in a legal battle with the Unica Regionale Sanitary Authority (Asur) for the application of the decision of the Cappato-Dj Fabo council. To decide the appropriateness of the drug, Corriere Adriatico today anticipates a multidisciplinary commission of experts, set up by Asur, after the verification of Mario’s conditions by the Marche Region Ethics Committee. The Luca Coscioni Association speaks of “a historic turning point”. The choice of the drug and the methods of administration were the missing piece left open after the green light of the regional Ethics Committee, which had identified in the Marches quadriplegic the conditions required by the absence of the Constitutional Court. Mario’s legal battle, however, began over 15 months ago, with the request to the Court of Ancona that the Asur verify the existence of the requirements. In recent weeks Mario had also denounced the same Committee and Asur Marche for the crime of torture, as well as for omitting official acts. “On the so-called ‘suicide aid’, from today in Italy we have not only precise rules, established by the Constitutional Court in the ‘Cappato Sentence’, but also defined medical procedures and practices that include the methods of self-administration of the drug by the patient “, declared Filomena Gallo, Mario’s co-advocate and national secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association, and Marco Cappato, treasurer of the Luca Coscioni Association. The validation of the drug and the methods of self-administration “finally creates a precedent” and “would now be serious – they underline – if Parliament insisted on approving rules, such as those under discussion in the House, which restrict, rather than expand, the rules already defined by the Constitutional Court. At this point it is even more important that the referendum on the end of life can be held “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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