Covid-positive baby abandoned by mother after swab – chronic



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Covid positive baby abandoned in hospital
Covid positive baby abandoned in hospital

Palermo, October 21, 2020 – A woman took her newborn to the hospital for the Covid buffer and then – after knowing that the little one is positive for Coronavirus – Have abandoned in the hands of doctors and nurses in the emergency room.

It happened last week in Palermo, at the children’s hospital. The woman had been temporarily removed due to the anti-Covid procedures implemented precisely because of the girl’s positivity, but then she ran away: she has never returned to get her daughter back and is at this time untraceable.

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“The medical personnel tried for days to contact the mother – explains Dr. Marilù Furnari, from the Di Cristina hospital health department – but we could not locate her. At that moment we alerted the police to the possible abandonment of the girl. “.

The doctors had also alerted the authorities to check if another positivity in the family unit of the girl. The Public Ministry for Minors of Palermo, chaired by the acting prosecutor Massimo Russo, has already requested the necessary measures from the Court and if the state of abandonment occurs, it could initiate the adoptability procedure.
Meanwhile, the newborn was entrusted to the medical director pending the activation of social services and the development of investigations. The Office of the Prosecutor for Minors has also forwarded the documents to the Office of the Prosecutor, which will coordinate investigations into child neglect.

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