The gup of the Court of Sassari, Giuseppe Grotteria, will decide in mid-November whether to indict the four health managers accused for the death of the Sassari surgeon Marco Spissu , 72, killed by Covid on April 15, 2020, after contracting the disease from a patient he had treated in the private hospital of the Sassarese Polyclinic .
In the request for indictment, formulated by the prosecutor Paolo Piras, the crimes of manslaughter and culpable epidemic are contested against Fiorenzo Delogu , coordinator of the crisis unit of the social health area of Ats, defended by the lawyers Silvio Piras and Giovanni Sechi, and three managers of the Sassarese 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.
This morning Capriotti underwent the examination of the judge explaining the safety procedures adopted by the Polyclinic to deal with the coronavirus emergency inside the structure.
In the next hearing, on November 8, the Capriotti cross-examination and the Pietro Melis examination will take place. The discussion and decision of the judge on the indictment is scheduled for November 15.
Spissu's family members filed a civil action with the lawyers Marco Palmieri and Carlo De Cesaro. Labor srl, owner of the Sassarese Polyclinic, and the former Ats were sued for civil liability.
(Unioneonline / vl)
