Bacterial killer among newborns in Verona, the mother who denounced: ‘Doctors with lollipops, without gloves and without masks. I gave the videos to the afternoon

“I should have known from the first moment terms they kept me little patients in the department of Neonatal intensive care Dell ‘Verona Hospital. But my only concern was Girl, his health, the diagnosis they had just made. Instead, I should have known when I walked into the room on the day of his birth. ” Francesca Frezza it is the mother who with her complaint gave birth to one health scandal unprecedented, in a health facility of excellence such asBorgo Trento Hospital, where almost a hundred babies were affected by the bacteria Citrobacter. Four died and 9 suffered brain damage very serious. It’s been a few days since preventive suspension three facility managers, while the the prosecutor’s office you have not yet entered a name in the registration investigated. At the moment there is only the hypothesis of a crime: involuntary manslaughter plural e serious injuries, engaged in the health sector. Among the research evidence there is also i video clips and the photos collected by Nina’s mother that show the behaviors of medici, health personnel me parents from other patients.

Why would he have known something was wrong?
Because when I knocked and they opened the door, nobody came. It was the first time I entered the room. I said, ‘I’m Nina’s mom,’ but no one bothered to explain what I could or couldn’t do, what rules to respect. I was the one who was looking for the room where the coats, the galoshes, the gloves, the liquid to disinfect the hands were. I went in, got dressed and went to Nina’s house.

After a few months he took his daughter to Genoa, on the Gaslini.
And I found a completely different treatment. When I first arrived, the head nurse met me and explained everything to do. And among other things, she handed me a sterile bag that I should have put my cell phones in when I was in the room.

The Prosecutor’s Office has acquired videos and photographs showing behavior in the neonatal intensive care unit.
I recorded them myself. And I took the photos myself, which I gave to the magistrates several months ago. When I decided to take Nina out of Verona, I told myself that I should document everything I saw.

What’s going on?
There is a photo of a doctor eating the lollipop, in a sterile environment, without gloves and without a mask. There’s the blueprint of the bellboy who came in shirtless, with dirty shoes to carry a package without a sterile container to the head nurse’s counter. Everyone used cell phones, parents, doctors, nurses. They opened the windows, came in carrying bags.

Have you ever made a report?
A week before leaving Verona and taking Nina to Genoa, I went to speak with the head nurse. I told him everything I had seen, which in my opinion was wrong.

The answer?
He said nothing. But I took that evidence to the magistrates.

Meanwhile, the precautionary suspensions of the medical director, the hospital medical director and the director of Pediatrics have arrived.
But in my opinion that’s not all. Why hasn’t the Microbiology department been touched? They were the ones who did the tests and if they found such numerous situations of contamination by Citrobacter they should have reported it.

It’s not like that?
I can’t say if and what they reported. But I think: if a laboratory certifies, in a given period of time, such a large number of infected children, those who carry out the analyzes should be concerned. But I can ask questions …

First?
What did Microbiology do when they recorded test results in children? Have they informed the department heads?

Others?
To what other hospital directors have you sent the information? Did they report the fact to the crisis unit? And who came into possession of that information, what did he do with it?

Minimize, this seems to have been the order within the hospital of Verona, as the report of the inspection commission designated by Veneto Region. A confirmation comes from a television interview – this tape was also acquired by the prosecutor – from Elisa, the mother of Alicia, who passed away on August 16, five and a half months after his birth. “Alice came into the world at 11 pm on March 4 and was already in the neonatal intensive care unit at 1:00 am. They made the tampons and they tested negative for bacteria, she was healthy. But then the Citrobacter was found, which ate the 70 percent of the brain”.

The woman continues: “I asked the doctors: has it happened to other children? Having no answers from them about what was going to happen to Alice, I hoped to confront parents struggling with the same problem. They told me there were no others. Instead, talking between mothers in the breast pump room, I discovered that there were children infected with Citrobacter, some from December 2019, some from January 2020, in more or less serious conditions. I counted one thirty and I learned that when they admitted Alice they put her in the same room with four babies affected by the bacteria. Why weren’t they isolated? ”.