Three (two on Monday and one this morning) elderly people, guests of a nursing home in the province of Florence, died after being admitted to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital for a serious gastrointestinal syndrome.
The story began last Monday, when some guests reported feeling unwell shortly after finishing their meals. The NAS carabinieri, personnel from the hygiene office of the ASL Toscana centro and the 118 vehicles, called by the operators, arrived at the facility. The people involved, four in total, were transported to the hospital: two victims on the first day, another today. There is another hospitalized at Careggi.
The prosecutor on duty has ordered an autopsy, while the inspectors of the ASL hygiene office are investigating the case to trace the possible error in the production chain of the canteen meals. The batch would have started from the cooking center of another nursing home, also in the Fiorentino, now closed for investigations.
(Online Union)
