Covid, a 41-year-old woman dies in Barletta hospital: “I had waited 11 hours for hospitalization.” ASL: “We have done everything possible”

High fever, cough and difficulty to breathe. Antonella Abbatangelo, 41 years of Trani, had tested positive in COVID-19 and its conditions got worse quickly. For this after a few days of home care had been accompanied by family members to the hospital emergency room in Trani, where, however, she had been sent home. The next day, he went to Dimiccoli’s hospital in Barletta, where she had been hospitalized – has reconstructed the Bari edition of Corriere del Mezzogiorno – after 11 hours wait. IT IS dead Thursday, November 19 five days later hospitalization. Antonella Abbatangelo was mother of a son of 14 months.

I members of the family for a few days they managed to be alone fragmentary news about terms women’s health, until the phone call on Thursday announcing her death. Giuseppe Carpagnano, a cardiologist on call at Dimiccoli hospital, recounted the event on Facebook: “After a 12-hour night shift, you come home devastated and a message arrives from your colleague to inform you that the patient you told him about is dead”. The cardiologist points out that “we don’t have personal and tools suitable “ and “it was probably the ineffective measures to counteract the virus a kill her“The doctor recalls that during the first wave of March” when we witnessed the disaster in Lombardy as spectators, we thought that if it had happened to us it would have been a “hecatomb. exist great responsibilities Which, he adds, will have to be clarified. Now there is no time for controversy. We do our part ”, concludes Carpagnano.

L ‘Bari ASL He tried to clarify the death of the 41-year-old man, reconstructing what happened in the hospital based on the documents in his possession. “I can assure you that the clinical apparatus is ensuring the maximum of the Attention and take care of all the patients who go to the emergency room, “he said. Alessandro Delle Donne, general manager of Asl Bat. The ASL has reconstructed history, confirming that “the woman is activated in the emergency room of the Dimiccoli hospital in Barletta with her own means of transport. November 13 and was assumed in mineral 23.01. He underwent a medical examination at 11:05 p.m.: they stood out dyspnoea me high fever for two days treated at home. One must add to the acute clinical picture. great comorbidity represented by metabolic problems. ” ASL has launched an investigation to understand how long the lady was being treated home therapy and what were the I hope outside first aid. According to the ASL, “the description of what happened from the time he took office until his death shows that everything possible has been done, we have deployed all available human forces, all available means ”.