"The Management of the Integrated University Hospital of Verona announces that following the findings of the report of the Regional Inspection Commission in relation to the Citrobacter affair of the Women's and Child Hospital of Borgo Trento, starting from Saturday 5 September 2020, they are suspended in three doctors under precautionary conditions ".
We read it in a note from the hospital published in the late evening on the story of the so-called killer bacterium.
The suspended doctors are Dr. Chiara Bovo, Health Director of the Verona hospital;
Dr. Giovanna Ghirlanda, Medical Director of the facility and Dr. Paolo Biban, Director of Pediatrics.
A sink tap used by NICU staff to take water and give it to the little ones is the cause of the death of four children and permanent brain damage for at least nine others at the Borgo Trento Hospital for Women and Children in Verona .
This is the conclusion of the report on the case of the Citrobacter bacterium by the Inspection Commission of the Veneto Region after the 96 cases found among the young born from 2018. This was announced by the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, who had initiated the investigation appointing a group of experts led by Professor Vincenzo Baldo, Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Padua.
The facility had been closed after the inspection began and was reopened today, as regards the Birth Point for non-at-risk parts, after a complete clean-up of the premises.
The commission's report will be forwarded to the Public Prosecutor's Office "and made available - announces Zaia - for the Verona University Hospital and for the families of children affected by the bacterium, so that they can know the results immediately".
By crossing medical records, protocols and procedures, the very dangerous 'killer' that carried the bacterium was discovered in the tap of the Intensive Care Unit, probably arrived from the outside and perhaps favored by the incomplete compliance with the hygiene measures imposed on the staff of high-level wards. risk.
The first to report the incident was a mother, Francesca Frezza, who heard the news of the outcome of the investigation and started a protest in front of the hospital.
"I am here - he explains - because the authoritative commission of inquiry appointed by Governor Zaia confirms everything I have always thought about in this long year".
Francesca holds the photo of her children, born in the Veronese hospital on 11 April 2019 and died at the Gaslini in Genoa seven months later.
"The only strong and dutiful choice that had to be made - he underlines, calling into question the Veronese health workers - was to close everything immediately and not wait two years. The decision was made only on June 12, when I made public the medico-legal reports who ascertained that my daughter died from Citrobacter ".