[ad_1]
It would have been nested in a water tap used by the staff of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital for Women and Children of Borgo Trento in Verona on Citrobacter, a bacterium that would have been the cause of the death of four children between the end of 2018 and this year, and that led health officials to shut it down.
This is the conclusion reached by the report of one of the two commissions appointed by the Veneto Region. This is the so-called “external commission”, coordinated by Vincenzo Baldo, Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Padua. Another report, which will be delivered to the Verona Prosecutor’s Office, is made up of internal members of the regional administration. According to the conclusions of the external commission, Citrobacter would have colonized the tap, probably due to a failure or partial respect of hygiene measures; Another mistake may have been to use tap water and not sterile water.
The first controls by the top management of the Verona university hospital began in January and were later interrupted due to the Coronavirus emergency. The entire obstetric ward – point of birth, neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care – was reopened today, after last June 12 the general director of Aou Verona, Francesco Cobello, had ordered its closure, proceeding with total sanitation . of spaces.
