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Reggio Calabria, the sad story of the 44-year-old man from Locride who died two days ago in the GOM intensive care unit
Two days ago, Wednesday, November 18, the Government of Reggio Calabria announced the death of a 44-year-old man in the daily bulletin on the Covid-19 emergency “died of a serious head injury for which he had been hospitalized“But counted among the Coronavirus deaths as positive for hyssop.
We explore the history of this man to understand if he really died of Covid-19 and why he was included in the death toll from the pandemic despite the fact that the cause of death is probably another. Dr. Sebastiano Macheda, head of the GOM Resuscitation Department, confirms that “Death was caused by the severe head trauma with which the patient came to the ward.“Excluding that Covid-19 may have aggravated the situation. Similarly Macheda It specifies that according to the ministerial and regional protocols, all those who test positive and die in the Covid-19 pavilions must be communicated, although with all the details of the case, and then the Ministry will validate or deny the real one. Causes of death.
“This man – explained to us Macheda – He arrived already intubated and on artificial respiration, in a very serious condition due to a terrible head injury at the Locri hospital. It was already positive, but paucisymptomatic. He had had a bit of a headache, fever, nothing special. He was at home, he did not need hospital treatment. Obviously we had to hospitalize him and treat him in the Covid-19 ward, although his problem had nothing to do with the pandemic, but it was positive so if we had taken him to the classic intensive care he could have infected other patients. Unfortunately there was nothing to do, we made an intervention but the situation was too critical. No one saw what happened, but the man most likely fell with the dead weight back, I guess after illness. Saying whether that disease could have been caused by Covid-19 or not is impossible, but I would tend to exclude it because he had no particular problems from the infection, he was fine, he was at home. He could have had a dizziness, an illness, but surely he fell on his back without the awareness of being able to protect himself with his hands, as he hit his head violently on the back of his neck. He had several skull fractures, in addition to the main one, also due to recoil. An extreme situation. But he died in the Covid-19 pavilion, it was Covid positive and therefore we must count him among the dead of the pandemic according to existing protocols, or at least we must communicate it as a hospital, then it will be up to the Ministry to decide. Certainly his respiratory and pulmonary parameters were good, he did not have respiratory failure even when he was hospitalized with a severe head trauma while we desperately tried to recover him. All other indicators were good, so much so that we watched him for brain death and all other organs were fully functional.“.
The story of the 44-year-old man from Reggio is particularly moving: married with 3 children, the man had been released from prison for ten days thanks to a total acquittal. “because the fact does not exist“He had been unjustly in prison for three long years. After such a tough court trial, he died suddenly. To the point that the judge called for more investigations into the body by arranging the autopsy.
Photo StrettoWeb / Salvatore Dato
Regardless of the pandemic and the count of deaths from Covid-19 or Covid-19, this terrible story reminds us that behind each number that at this point in an excessively cold way we count every day among the dead, cured, hospitalized, dice of high etc. there is the story of men, women and their families to whom the greatest closeness is directed and a warm and sincere embrace of condolences in cases where the epilogue of a bad accident or illness turns out to be fatal.
And there are other men and women who watch over us 24 hours a day as guardian angels at the service of the community to protect the most important asset we have, our health, with extraordinary sacrifices and professionalism.
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