Belluno went to work sick: chief doctor investigated for guilty epidemic

A Belluno chief physician, Roberto Bianchini, investigated by the prosecutor with the hypothesis of a guilty epidemic crime. According to the researchers, Bianchini visited otorhinolaryngologist patients without a mask between the end of February and the beginning of March, when some municipalities in Lombardy and Veneto were already closed. According to local newspapers, the president and members of the Office of Disciplinary Procedures of the Local Health Authority 1 Dolomiti, on the other hand, must answer for false material and ideology in public deed and aggravated complicity and personal complicity. According to the prosecutor, they helped the chief doctor avoid internal investigations. The doctor had returned from Thailand at the end of February, but did not mention that he had returned from a country at epidemiological risk, avoiding a 14-day fiduciary isolation. . He would not have reported having symptoms compatible with Covid-19 and then would have continued to visit patients without adopting the safety devices. On a subsequent swab, it was found positive for Covid-19. A subsequent investigation found that those six days of work, with symptoms compatible with the coronavirus, caused an outbreak inside the San Martino di Belluno hospital. There were four direct infections, the ASL got a hundred tampons. To the Prevention Department, Bianchini explained that he had not had direct contact with the population of the Southeast Asian country, so he would have been declared fit to work. He remained in the room until March 3, when Covid symptoms became apparent.