Instead of turning to doctors, he treated himself following the therapeutic advice of Ippocrateorg, an association that considers Covid to be a disease easily treatable with home therapies and the protagonist, a few weeks ago, of a discussed conference in the Senate.

The elderly man ended up in intensive care and the Ferrara prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the matter.

A "cognitive" dossier, reports the Courier, without suspects or charges of crime. Investigators are reconstructing the facts, then making any decisions.

The case was reported to the Prosecutor's Office by the doctors of the Sant'Anna hospital in Ferrara, where the man has been hospitalized for a week in very serious conditions.

The elderly person is 68 years old and has previous pathologies. He never wanted to get vaccinated and, once he contracted Covid, instead of contacting the hospital or general practitioner, he limited himself to following the instructions received by telephone and email from the association. At the time of hospitalization he had also told the doctors that he wanted to be discharged as soon as possible. Now it is up to the investigators to establish whether there are criminal responsibilities on the part of the doctors who had convinced the patient not to undergo the therapies that are normally followed in these cases.

Three weeks ago the representatives of Hippocratesorg were invited by some parliamentarians of the League to give a highly contested conference in the Senate on alternative methods to treat Covid. Among these, the use of drugs loved by conspiracy theorists and sovereignists, such as hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin.

(Unioneonline / L)