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A 73-year-old retiree has chest pains but is diagnosed with gastrointestinal problems: the prosecution opens an investigation
Enrico Lorenzo Tidona
REGGIO EMILIA
He had severe, persistent chest pains that made him gasp and faint. A clear sign as to the seriousness, that on Thursday of last week it hit Rosario Martino, 73, who from her home (in Villa Sex) reached her doctor, taking a path that should lead him to recovery in the as much as possible. According to the family, it turned out to be a dead end that in a few days caused the death of their loved one.
Martino, retired and until that moment without such serious health problems, when he began to feel ill, he went to the doctor who immediately prescribed an urgent cardiac examination, reporting on the certificate the retrosternal pain with fainting that the sufferer told him.
With the prescription in hand, the 73-year-old man immediately went to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Reggio, in the cardiology department, where, as he later told the family, two nurses told him that there were no doctors available at that time. moment. “You can’t today, you have to visit tomorrow,” the hospital staff advised him.
So the patient went home, always complaining about the same complaints. The next day he returned to the cardiology department, on the ground floor of the Reggio hospital. There he finally underwent an urgent cardiological examination, complete with an echocardiogram. The doctor’s diagnosis, however, indicates that epigastric pain (actually occurs) is the reason for these conditions. A diagnosed gastric condition that, despite severe chest pains, leads to the immediate discharge of the patient, who returns home although not very convinced by the result of the visit, as he later tells his wife and three children.
Once he returned to the apartment in via Galeotti, those pains did not stop. Two days after the tragic discovery of the family: on Monday morning the 73-year-old man leaves the house but will not even be able to reach the parking lot. In fact, they find him lying on the ground, lifeless, near the door of the condo. 118 arrives at the scene, but volunteers and doctors are unable to revive him. A few steps from the front door of the house, he is then crushed by a disease that despairs the family, which does not give peace and, through the lawyer Mauro Intagliata, he presents a complaint to the prosecutor asking for the seizure of the medical documentation and the autopsy.
“The relatives want to know if it is a medical error or a tragic fatality,” explains Reggio’s lawyer. The prosecutor has opened a file in which the cardiologist of the hospital who made the visit is investigated. In addition, the deputy prosecutor Valentina Salvi ordered an autopsy two days ago – the transfer will take place in the next few days – in order to resolve the doubt about the causes of the pensioner’s death. –
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