The investigating judge of the Court of Sassari , Giuseppe Grotteria, will decide on 7 February next whether to indict the four health managers accused for the death of the Sassari surgeon Marco Spissu , 72, killed by Covid on 15 April 2020 after contracting the disease from a patient who had treated within the private structure Policlinico Sassarese.
For the disappearance of the doctor, the prosecutor Paolo Piras has requested the trial of Fiorenzo Delogu , coordinator of the crisis unit of the social health area of Ats, defended by the lawyers Silvio Piras and Giovanni Sechi, and for three managers of the Sassari Polyclinic : Paolo Argenti, managing director, Angelo Pietro Melis, medical director, and Angelo Capriotti, head of the prevention and protection service, defended by the lawyer Agostinangelo Marras.
The final discussion of the preliminary hearing took place this morning in the magistrate's courtroom, with the prosecutor and the civil parties (represented by lawyers Marco Palmieri and Caldo de Cesaro) reiterating their requests: Delogu is charged with the crime of omission of official documents for having unduly refused, as coordinator of the local crisis unit, to order the execution of a swab to ascertain Spissu's positivity to the coronavirus, as well as for the crime of death as a consequence of another crime . The other defendants are charged with manslaughter and manslaughter .
Labor, the company that owns the Policlinico Sassarese, represented by the lawyer Filippo Dinacci, and Assl 1, which instead did not appear in court, were cited as civilly liable.
(Unioneonline/vl)
