Brain death declared for the 17-year-old from Tezze sul Brenta, in the Vicenza area, suffering from meningococcal meningitis and hospitalized since Saturday evening in the intensive care unit of the Bassano del Grappa hospital.
Yesterday morning, his schoolmates had gone to the hospital to be close to the boy who until a few days ago was sitting with them on the benches of the da Ponte scientific high school.
The doctors did everything to prevent the collapse of the young patient 's conditions , but the procedure to declare brain death was started this morning .
Ulss 7 Pedemontana has started tracing all the contacts the boy had in the last 10 days, including his teammates with whom he trained and the opponents he met in a match played in recent days.
There are 265 people currently on prophylaxis : 75 those intercepted in recent days and 190 in the last few hours.
But now they are looking for other possible contacts of the student who had also taken part in some parties held in the towns of Tezze and Marostica.
(Unioneonline/vl)
