The conditions of little Pietro, the newborn of just nine months hospitalized in intensive care at the Santobono pediatric hospital in Naples , remain extremely critical, with a prognosis that remains reserved. The child, originally from Villammare, a coastal hamlet of Vibonati, in the Salerno area, was urgently transferred by helicopter ambulance last Thursday, after an initial life-saving intervention performed by doctors at the Sapri hospital.
It was precisely at the Sapri hospital that the newborn arrived in desperate conditions: in a deep coma, dehydrated and with evident muscular hypotonia. Upon arrival at the Santobono in Naples, the doctors found themselves faced with a dramatic clinical picture: extensive cerebral edema, skull fractures in the area behind the ear, broken right femur and old lesions on the ribs . Two very delicate neurosurgical interventions have already been performed in the space of a few hours to reduce intracranial pressure, but the little one continues to fight between life and death. The next few hours will be decisive.
The Carabinieri of the Sapri Company, on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Lagonegro, are now working on the causes of the serious injuries suffered by Pietro . In the last few hours, investigators have interviewed the child's mother, her current partner and biological father, to try to reconstruct the exact dynamics of the facts. According to what has leaked out, the injuries occurred at different times: some, such as the fractured femur, date back to the previous days, while the head traumas are compatible with a very recent event. Elements that investigators are verifying with great attention.
The family picture is complex: Pietro lives with his mother, a twenty-nine-year-old originally from Licusati, a hamlet of Camerota, and with her new partner. The father of the newborn, a baker living in Sapri, rushed to the hospital as soon as he learned of his son's hospitalization. The couple, separated for a few months, is now involved in a judicial investigation, also in light of a complaint for alleged mistreatment recently filed by the mother against her ex-partner .
(Online Union)