"You do it." This is what a doctor told two 118 nurses, who, instead of helping a dying 14-year-old on Monday 28 October, Eleonora Chinello, who later died in hospital from injuries sustained in a road accident in Sant'Angelo di Piove di Sacco (Padua), remained comfortably seated in the ambulance.
A car had hit the girl (the driver is under investigation) while she was riding her bicycle to catch the bus that would have taken her to school in Dolo, in the province of Venice . It was the same health workers - one from Ulss 6 and one from Croce Verde - who drew up the report that directly calls into question the actions of Anna Maria Lamanna, 62, resident in Caserta, who graduated in medicine from the University of Naples at 44, now a general practitioner specializing in nephrology.
Based on their testimonies, the prosecutor Sergio Dini has entered the doctor who answered the call that day in the register of suspects with the charges of refusal to perform official duties, interruption of a public service and cooperation in manslaughter . Eleonora's parents had already decided to donate their daughter's organs but the following day, October 29, the superior of the two nurses reported the matter to the judicial authorities. The prosecutor has entrusted the Carabinieri of the NAS with further investigations and the coroner Antonello Cirniello with the autopsy. It will take 60 days to determine whether the health worker's failure to intervene was a determining factor in the girl's death or not.
In addition to working in some private facilities in the province of Belluno, Lamanna had been hired as a "token worker" by the professional company Cmp of Granarolo (Bologna) that provides day and night coverage to the emergency room of the hospital in Piove di Sacco, a few kilometers from where Eleonora was hit. The doctor explained to her employers that she did not stop in front of the patient but understood immediately, already from the seat of the ambulance, how serious the situation was and that she had asked for immediate reinforcement from the hospital in Padua. In the meantime, the company Cmp suspended the woman from service in the emergency room with immediate effect.
(Online Union)