According to the experts, there was medical negligence: this is what emerged yesterday during the hearing for the trial against six doctors from the province of Caserta.
Franco Lopez, Antonietta Esposito, Angelo Di Monaco, Andrea Tartaglione, Marco Maria Crescenzo Muto and Michele Scapaticci, who operated on and treated Elena Trepiccione, the 69-year-old woman who died on 13 June 2012 in the Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno, where she had been urgently transferred, at the insistence of her family, after undergoing two surgical operations at the “Minerva” clinic in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, at the “Santa Maria della Salute Minerva” clinic in Santa Maria Capua Vetere.
The doctors in the first instance were acquitted. In yesterday's hearing, the experts Pietro Tarsitano, coroner, and the gynecologist, Antonio Chiantera, answered the Court's questions. The two doctors did not rule out the negligence of the doctors who followed the post-operative course of the woman's first 2 operations.
During the first-degree trial, the woman's son, Giovanni Carrillo, recounted in court the 48 days of his mother's agony, until her death. "It all started when the woman went to her trusted gynecologist Lopez complaining of blood loss. Following the visit, a cervical polyp was found and a day hospital operation was scheduled at the Minerva clinic, which was performed on April 27, 2012. My mother," her son said, "began to complain of excruciating abdominal pain from the first hours after the operation. We were told that it was normal and that the constant vomiting was normal too. Only after a few days, at my father's insistence, Lopez and his team decided to subject my mother to a CT scan where they showed that in stitching up her abdomen they had hooked the intestine to the wall."
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On May 3, the woman underwent surgery again. “The doctors told us that everything had gone well,” Carrillo told the judge, “and that they had solved the problem. In reality, my mother continued to get worse until they told us that a complication had arisen, namely a heart problem. Since we no longer trusted those doctors, we insisted on taking her away, so she was transferred by ambulance to the Pineta Grande clinic. There, after a CT scan, the doctors told us that the problem was not heart-related, but unfortunately they informed us that my mother was in very serious conditions and that her intestine was perforated in several places and in peritonitis, so she necessarily had to be operated on again as soon as possible.
After 48 hours from the operation, we learned from the doctors on duty in the intensive care unit that my mother, still in a coma, had a lung infection, an infection due to septicemia. The situation worsened until her death”.
Article published on 9 January 2021 - 15:33
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