He had initially treated Covid-19 at home, with the assistance of a volunteer doctor via email and phone. Yesterday morning, a 68-year-old, unvaccinated man died in the intensive care unit of the Sant'Anna Hospital in Ferrara, where he had been admitted a month ago in already compromised conditions, with extremely low blood oxygen saturation.
The Ferrara Public Prosecutor's Office had already opened a fact-finding file on the case following a report from the hospital and now, with the prosecutor Ciro Alberto Savino, is investigating for failure to provide assistance. An autopsy will be performed in the next few days to delve deeper into the medical-legal aspects of the case and it is likely that further investigations will be ordered, including the complete identification of the doctor from a distance.
The doctor, who is said to be a professional from Reggio Emilia, is said to be linked to the Ippocrateorg association, the same one that held a conference in the Senate on home care that had sparked a political storm in recent weeks. In the meantime, a notice of suspension of assistance “for reasons beyond our control” has appeared on the organization’s website, until Monday at 10 a.m., with a warning to users: “In the event of saturation below 94-95 or decreasing, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath even with modest efforts, etc., you must not wait to contact us and you must not wait to be contacted, but you must obtain a visit and possible hospitalization as soon as possible.”
The deceased 68-year-old, a convinced 'anti-vax', a person described as isolated and with few social relationships, as well as with some previous pathologies, apparently even in the hospital had attempted to sign a discharge and refuse treatment. A psychiatric consultation had also been requested for the patient. The documents also include messages and emails that the man himself gave to the doctors once in the hospital. Among the drugs prescribed to him there would also be dewormers.
“The colleague should be severely and rightly sanctioned if the accusations were founded, and if it were true that he believed he could treat a patient affected by Covid 'via email and telephone, or without using certified and compliant integrated platforms.
But let us not, for the sake of truth and science, create suspicion about telemedicine,” says the company Csp Telemedicine Srl, through Marcello Ruspi, vascular surgeon and head of the healthcare and clinical planning area, who asks not to cause confusion: “Telemedicine is a very serious matter.”
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