Family members have been waiting for answers on the case of Loredana Guida for three years, the 44-year-old teacher from Agrigento who died of a very serious form of malaria contracted in Nigeria , a country where she wanted to open a school for children.
The disease was diagnosed only days after her return to Italy despite the fact that, feverish, she had told her family doctor first, then the emergency room and the medical guard that she had returned from Africa. However, the woman was not listened to and died. Now the family members have written a letter to the Head of State, the Attorney General of Palermo and the Minister of Health to recount the ordeal experienced by the teacher and ask for justice . In fact, the Prosecutor's Office of Agrigento requested the trial only for three doctors, for two doctors - the head of intensive care and an emergency room doctor - the prosecutors requested the archiving, despite the perplexities of the investigating judge, arguing that the conditions of the woman were already so serious that there is nothing the two could have done. The family is of a different opinion, which is now asking for help from the institutions. When the first symptoms appeared, Loredana turned to her family doctor to whom she immediately told that she had been in Africa. Liquidated with the diagnosis of a trivial flu without ever being visited, she shuttled between the emergency room and medical guard for days. On January 20, 2020, he arrived in a coma at the hospital. Only 24 hours later she was hospitalized and tested for malaria and with incredible delay she was given the quinine that the Asp of Agrigento had to recover from Catania.
Now the family - the mother and the three brothers - are asking for "a fair trial" , "where the parties, each questioned for their own responsibilities in the cross-examination that befits a civilized country, can and must express their reasons by declaring themselves innocent until proven guilty », but, if guilty, «should be condemned without the possibility of shortcuts».
(Unioneonline/F)
