Ants on patient, nurses' suspension revoked.
The ASL of Naples condemned for the suspension of three nurses on duty the night of the discovery of insects on a patient hospitalized in the Medicine Department of the San Giovanni Bosco of Naples.
The labor judge blames the ASL for the serious hygienic conditions and structural deficiencies and stigmatizes the hospital's decision to admit the patient in serious conditions to the ward rather than to Intensive Care.
A national case in 2018 hit the headlines with the images of a patient hospitalized in the Medicine department of the San Giovanni Bosco hospital in Naples found in a bed invaded by ants.
It was November 2008 and the ASL Napoli 1, after the controversy and the uproar, decided to identify and punish the alleged perpetrators of the arrival of the ants in the department.
Three nurses on duty during the hours the patient was hospitalized in that insect-infested bed were given disciplinary action involving a 30-day suspension from work without pay.
Three years later, Judge Roberto De Matteis of the Naples Tribunal, Labor Section, accepted the appeal of the three nurses who had undergone disciplinary proceedings, deeming the suspension illegitimate and ordered the ASL to pay the salary for those 30 days of suspension from work.
The case. The facts date back to November 2018 when, following a report from a relative of a patient admitted to the medical unit of the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Naples, the case of a hospital guest who had been suddenly covered by an "army" of ants while she was in bed was brought to national attention.
The health authority immediately sent a charge report to the three nurses who were employed on the night shift when the incident occurred.
the event.
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In the appeal presented to the labor judge, the three nurses claimed that they were not responsible for what happened that night. Judge De Matteis accepted the appeal, holding that the negligence of the staff who had fulfilled their duties had not been proven.
In the ruling made public on July 2nd, however, reference is made to the serious structural, hygienic and maintenance deficiencies of the Neapolitan hospital structure. The judge stigmatized the clinical and care inadequacy towards the patient hospitalized in the medical department, rather than in the intensive care unit, given her precarious health conditions.
The three nurses were legally supported by the lawyer Domenico de Angelis of the Nursind union who followed the trial.
Marco Esposito, territorial secretary of NURSIND of Naples declares: “It is a fundamental sentence for what concerns the protection of the nursing profession, in this case involved in an absurd burden of responsibility of regional politics and of the management of the company ASL Napoli 1”.
Particularly satisfied with the outcome of the trial, the lawyer highlights how the sentence has demolished the absurd theorem of the company, according to which, by mere presumption, it was believed that the invasion of ants was attributable to the lack of supervision of the patient by the nurses, this contrasting with the activity of real competence of the specific professional profile of these workers, who moreover operate in conditions of particular organizational precariousness, since the company does not have the necessary staff.
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Article published on 7 July 2021 - 15:31
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