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“IT IS he died suffering and it is not fair. She had plans, at 25 she wanted to get married like her sisters and instead she left at 22 and this should never happen again. Ángela Giardina is the desperate mother of Lorenza Famularo, a young woman from Lipari who died on the night of August 23-24 with severe pain, after a hospital odyssey that began on the eve of August 15. For her death there is an investigation by the Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto prosecutor, an investigation by the ASP of Messina and another by the regional health department. A nurse on duty at Lipari hospital on the night of August 14 has already been suspended.
But all of this did not help calm people, and yesterday the grief over Lorenza’s death turned into a blatant protest involving thousands of islanders, “about two thousand,” says Mayor Giorgianni. In short, a wick for a health situation on the island, and in the Aeolian archipelago in summer crowded with tourists and vacationers, which for too long has been considered insufficient. So yesterday at 2 in the afternoon, after a talk on social networks that started the day before, a procession was moving through the streets of the island with the aim of the landing sites of the hydrofoils. Ultimately, the docks were invaded and it was not possible to disembark or embark passengers, while other hydrofoils remained in the port. A protest that had a prologue last Thursday when, just after Lorenza’s funeral, her boyfriend with his brother and other relatives went to occupy the entrance of the old hospital on the island, the only one in the archipelago. In a short time, hundreds of people gathered in the plaza in front of the structure demanding justice for Lorenza but also more efficient health services. A situation well known to the Liparots, tired of broken promises. And indeed, in yesterday’s protest, which ended only in the afternoon when the hydrofoils were able to return to the sea, the island’s people put Sicilian Governor Nello Musumeci and Health Councilor Ruggero Razza on the dock. Almost a nemesis, for them, who in recent days have been at the center of the news for the controversial provision to close migrant centers “to protect the health of Sicilians.” The mayor of Lipari, Marco Giorgianni, with his administration shared the protest and, after speaking with Musumeci and Razza, met with the protesters: “It is clear that the demonstration is no longer just about the death of a girl, an alleged case of medical negligence on which the Judicial Power will have to shed light, but on the health conditions in our islands. ”The mayor explains that the Sicilian Region has for some time included in the health planning the requests of the territory but that everything has remained on paper: “The winners of the contest do not want to come because it is a disadvantaged place, of 60 nurses there are only 35; I understand that it is not a political option but we ask for the application of what has been assured for a long time.”
In the evening, President Musumeci said he had “asked the health councilor to go to Lipari next week.” But then he specified: “It would be correct to keep two profoundly different themes separate.” “They are separate issues and even the protesters know it,” reiterates the mayor. We will receive the commissioner civilly but with great determination. Even the Ministry of Health has decided to see clearly and last night Deputy Minister Pierpaolo Sileri announced the dispatch of inspectors to Lipari.
