(ANSA) – AOSTA, 16 MAR – The Aosta prosecutor has asked for the indictment for manslaughter of the doctor Marco Aicardi, 38, of Verrayes, as part of the investigation into the 17-month death of the Aosta Valley girl Valentina Chapellu, which occurred on 17 February 2020 at the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin, where she had arrived in desperate conditions, after having been visited and discharged four times from the Beauregard hospital in Aosta.
The preliminary hearing will be held on March 23 in front of the gup of Aosta.
The decision of the prosecutor – the holder of the file is the prosecutor Francesco Pizzato – follows the appraisal of the consultants Cinzia Immormino and Antonio Francesco Urbino carried out in the context of the probative incident. According to the experts it was not possible to fully attribute a direct consequence between the work of the health workers who took care of the child and her death.
However, they underline that there are clear profiles of guilt, determined by negligence and imprudence on the part of the doctor who examined her during the access to the Beauregard emergency room on 11 February 2020. This is “slight negligence” attributed to Marco Aicardi, as such a dramatic event was indeed rare and therefore it cannot be thought that it “acted despite the prediction of the event”.
Adequate “diagnosis and therapy would have had a significant impact on survival, but also on the determinism of death”. From the consultation, it emerges that at the time of the two visits prior to 11 February, carried out by two other doctors for whom filing has already been requested, it is very likely that the girl was already suffering from influenza A, at that moment without the bacterial superinfection which caused their death. On February 11, her condition was serious enough to indicate a prolonged observation period and eventual hospitalization, in which to perform blood chemistry and instrumental tests. “Surely – underline the experts – a therapy could have been set up that would have given the child a better chance of survival”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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