There are two people registered in the register of suspects in the proceedings for manslaughter opened by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office following the complaint filed by the journalist's family Andrew Purgatori, who died from a complication that suddenly occurred after he had been admitted to a private clinic for a cycle of radiotherapy.
The two, who work in a diagnostic center in the capital, are charged with manslaughter. Meanwhile, the magistrates of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office are about to assign the expert task to the coroner who will have to perform the autopsy.
The Carabinieri of the NAS are acquiring the medical records in the facility where Purgatori had been treated. One of the medical records was acquired in the hospital where Purgatori died.
The journalist was hospitalized to undergo radiotherapy for a lung tumor that had caused problems in his brain. According to the family, who signed the complaint to the Prosecutor's Office, the alleged irregularities in the treatments administered should be sought precisely in the acceleration of the brain pathology, which in their opinion, would have accelerated after the anti-tumor therapies.
The autopsy will serve to clarify whether Purgatori was affected by tumor metastases to the brain. During the diagnostic instrumental tests, which took place in another clinic in the capital, they were not highlighted in the radiological tests.
According to doctors from another facility to which the journalist had turned, the lesions that emerged from the radiological images were due to ischemia. This is one of the aspects that the Prosecutor's Office intends to clarify because, if the circumstance were to be confirmed, with the error in the diagnosis, the therapy administered would have been wrong.
Article published on 21 July 2023 - 14:45
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