Four pediatricians from the Local Health Authority of Valle d'Aosta are under investigation for manslaughter for the death of Valentina Chapellu, the 17-month-old girl from Valle d'Aosta who died on Monday in the intensive care unit of the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin, where she had arrived on 13 February in conditions very serious after being visited in Aosta. Aosta prosecutor Francesco Pizzato ordered an autopsy.
After the complaint of the little girl's family, on Friday 14 February, the prosecutor of Aosta had initially opened a file for culpable injuries, investigating the four pediatricians who had visited her from time to time: Marco Aicardi, Catherine Bertone, Adriana Bobbio and Manuela Ciocchini . With the death of the little girl, the hypothesis of crime has therefore changed. The autopsy will take place in the next few days. The girl had been brought to the Beauregard hospital in Aosta for the first time on January 16. So again on 5, 6 and 11 February. He had respiratory problems and high fever (up to almost 39 degrees). Pediatricians have always discharged her, prescribing antipyretics. In those first days of the month the little girl had lost a pound of weight. The last visit was on 12 February: during the night the situation precipitated and the little girl was transferred to the intensive care unit of the Parini hospital in Aosta and then by helicopter to the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin, where she arrived in conditions desperate.