Killer bacteria in Verona hospital, the mother who denounced: “My daughter died like 3 other children. They knew it, they did not intervene”

“Is a slaughter, a massacre of innocents that should have been avoided. What happened is very serious. The Verona hospital was closed immediately, to disinfect it and find the source of Citrobacter. ” Francesca Frezza, from Verona, is the mother who fought after the death of her daughter Girl, who fell ill in Borgo Trento and died at the Gaslini in Genoa due to a brain injury. It is the mother who with her personal battle, is going to demonstrate in front of the entrance of the Scaliger hospital, considered an excellence of Venetian health, managed to obtain the closure of infected rooms. And it allowed to discover impressive numbers in killer bacteria: “Since 2018 the children affected are 96, me cerebrolesi am 9 and the dead are four. Among these also my daughter Nina, who was born inApr 11, 2019 and he died on November 18 the following ”, summarizes Mrs. Francesca who learned of the existence of a first report prepared by a regional commission and that the governor Luca zaia assured that he wanted to send interested children to all parents, as well as to the Verona prosecutor who opened ainvestigation, currently against unknown.

the Citrobacter it was located in a tap of a sink used by the staff of the Neonatal intensive care, closed last June next to the Center for Obstetrics-Delivery and Pediatric Intensive Care. “The infections started in 2018, in Verona. Infections are in all hospitals, but must be detected measurementswhen they occur. Instead, in this case nothing has been done. Since 2018 we have waited until June 12 before closing the departments ”. L ‘accusation formulated by Frezza is heavy. His words are identical to those he recorded a few days ago, during a interrogation at the Prosecutor’s Office.

“Nothing was done… – he repeats – and in the end the decision was made because I asked for a closure. I went to the gates saying I wouldn’t move until they caught measurements. Only then did they make the decision. But they also knew that this bacterium was there, they had known it since 2018. I think there is nothing more to add, ”he repeats. And today, after the publication of the excerpts of the report, he ran in front of the hospital asking him resignation of the heads of the departments and the Department of Health because, together with his brother, he supports Matteo, lawyer, who, with what the report shows, who had the responsibility of those departments cannot remain in place. Departments that, as of today, will restart.

And mother Francesca has some details to add: “I have faith in judicialI’m sure you can find out what happened and what the responsibilities are because infections, brain sequelae and deaths have occurred in Verona. repeated in time. After the second case, they should have closed everything. I ask: why didn’t they? If they had, my Nina would be alive and instead died with excruciating suffering. ” The four children who died in the internal ward of the Hospital for Women and Children of Verona are Leonardo (at the end of 2018), Nina (November 2019), Tommasso (March 2020) and Alicia (August 16, 2020).

The list is contained in the report prepared by the teacher Vincenzo Baldo, Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Padua and coordinator of the verification commission appointed by the Region of Veneto. The control body is also made up of teachers Elio Castagnola, Head of Infectious Diseases at the Gaslini pediatric hospital in Genoa, Gian Maria Rossolini, Professor of Microbiology at the University of Florence, and Pierlugi Viale, Professor of Infectious Diseases in Bologna, by the Director of Pediatrics and Neonatology at Usl Berica, Massimo Bellizzato, and by the managers of Azienda Zero Mario Saia ed Elena Narne.

the tap, they argue, it was literally “Colonized” from the killer bacteria (as well as other bacteria) that had come from outside. But evidently something didn’t work out even regarding Hygienic measures tax on personal in high risk departments (washing hands, changing gloves, wearing galoshes, galoshes, footwear and a mask). In addition, it must be determined whether theaqueduct instead of sterile water. The story of Francesca Frezza, already told by ilfattoquotidiano.it in June, he detailed: “My daughter suffered unspeakably. The doctors have it intubate, they wanted to operate it, they never used heal compassion, without pain therapy. The little one was everything limit of forcesand when, finally, I managed to take her, to the Gaslini of Genoa. She spent her last days in a hospice, serene. He left without crying out in pain ”.