The two medical guards accused for the death of Roberto Pais, the first Covid 19 death in 2020 in northern Sardinia, were also acquitted on appeal.
The Court, presided over by Maria Teresa Lupinu, therefore chose the same path as the preliminary hearing judge Sergio De Luca, who a year ago had acquitted Lucio Zirattu and Maria Caterina Cherchi "because the fact does not exist".
The deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Sassari Paolo Piras had accused the two, to whom the victim's family had turned for help, of not having studied the patient's clinical picture in depth and of not having reported the conditions of the fifty-one-year-old street vendor from Ossi all local crisis unit. Pais's state of health had worsened within a few days and when, in the end, thanks to his wife's insistence, he had been taken by ambulance to the Santissima Annunziata hospital in Sassari, the clinical picture had worsened irreversibly, so much so that the man died on March 22, 2020, within six days of hospitalization, in the intensive care unit of the Aou of Sassari.
The lawyers Nicola Sanna and Luca D'Alò defended the medical guards, while Alessandra Delrio was the plaintiff's lawyer.