Eboli, admitted to hospital for hip surgery, dies mysteriously on the day of the operation: the Prosecutor's Office opens an investigation.
He had been admitted to the hospital for a “normal” hip operation, but he never made it to the operating room: he died in his hospital room due to unspecified “complications”. At 69 years old. In response to the complaint filed by his family, assisted by Studio3A-Valore SpA, the Public Prosecutor of Salerno, Dr. Morris Saba, has opened criminal proceedings for the alleged crime of manslaughter in the healthcare sector, currently against unknown persons, for the death of Rocco Morelli, which occurred on Wednesday 2022 June XNUMX in the hospital in his city, Eboli.
The Deputy Prosecutor has also ordered an autopsy on the body, which will be essential to understand the causes of death and ascertain any liability on the part of the doctors who treated the sixty-nine-year-old: the assignment to the technical consultant will be given tomorrow, Wednesday 8 June, at 8 am, at the Cittadella Giudiziaria in Salerno. Dr. Mauro Ciavarella will also participate in the expert operations, as a medical examiner made available by Studio3A-Valore SpA, a company specialized at a national level in compensation for damages and the protection of citizens' rights to which the relatives of Morelli, who leaves behind a wife and four children, have turned to shed full light on the tragic event, through legal consultant Dr. Vincenzo Carotenuto.
The patient was in good health and did not suffer from any particular pathologies, except for hip pain, which is why the doctors of the Orthopedics department of the Eboli Hospital had decided to operate on him: Morelli had been admitted on May 28 and subjected to all the pre-operative checks, the surgery had been scheduled for Wednesday June XNUMX.
As he told his son by phone at 6 am that same day, which would also be his last, during the night before the operation, however, the sixty-nine-year-old had felt ill and had vomited. The son then called the department to find out what problems his father was suffering from, but here they answered him reassuringly, explaining that they were carrying out tests to understand the nature of the illness and that they had proceeded with intestinal washes against nausea.
Increasingly worried, however, the son went to Orthopedics at 12.15:XNUMX to speak in person with some doctors and began asking all the health workers he met about his father's condition, insisted on seeing him, knowing that he wasn't feeling well, and repeatedly asked the operators to go and check on him. Not only did no one answer him, but they also removed him from the department, even calling in the security guard.
It will be a dramatic case, the fact is that at that very moment the victim's son saw doctors rushing and entering the Orthopedics department with defibrillators: unfortunately, they were for his father. After a while, the Orthopedics doctors finally came out and, faced with the insistent questions of the son and the other relatives who rushed to the hospital, confirmed their premonitions, communicating that their loved one had died due to unspecified "complications": the patient was still lying in the bed in his room, all covered in vomit.
Distraught by the pain of the loss, unable to understand that sudden and inexplicable death, having not actually obtained answers from the doctors and having many doubts about the care given to their loved one by the health workers, even the suspicion that they had actually intervened only when their son had gone to "bump" in person, the relatives of the victim turned to Studio3A and filed a complaint with the Carabinieri of the Eboli station, asking the judicial authority to start the appropriate investigations.
They then set the funeral, which already took place on June 2, but they did not proceed with the burial of the body, which is located at the morgue of the cemetery of Eboli, awaiting a response from the Prosecutor's Office, which has now arrived with the consequent provisions.
Article published on 7 June 2022 - 16:26
