The drama of Antonella, who died of Covid in Barletta after 11 hours of waiting for a bed

Antonella Abbatangelo, 41, from Trani, mother of a 14-month-old boy, had had a fever and cough for a week, who died Thursday after contracting Covid. The death occurred at the Dimiccoli hospital in Barletta where she was admitted for about five days, after waiting 11 hours before being accepted into the emergency room. The day before her hospitalization in Barletta, in addition, she had been sent home from the emergency room in Trani, where she had gone because she was not feeling well. The story is told by the Corriere del Mezzogiorno di Bari in an article stating that the woman did not have any particular pathology.

The newspaper also includes the comment of a cardiologist, Peppe Carpagnano, on duty at the same hospital where Antonella died. On social media, the doctor writes that “after a 12-hour night shift” you go home “devastated” and “you receive a message from your colleague to inform you that the patient you told him about has passed away.” The cardiologist points out that “we do not have the proper personnel and tools” and “it was probably the ineffective measures to combat the virus that killed her.”

According to the reconstruction of the incident carried out by the Corriere del Mezzogiorno, the 41-year-old, after a week in which the symptoms of the infection became more and more evident, was accompanied by relatives to the emergency room of the Trani hospital , which would not be equipped to cure Covid. From here, the woman – writes the newspaper – was sent home. The next day the family members contacted the referring doctor who advised her to go to the emergency room in Barletta where, after a long wait, she was hospitalized. For a few days, relatives managed to obtain only fragmentary information about their relative’s health conditions until the phone call on Thursday announcing his death.