After Fedez's social appeal on the shortage of drugs based on pancreatic enzymes, a story of generosity comes from the Piacenza newspaper Libertà: from the columns of the newspaper a patient from Grazzano Visconti who has lived without a pancreas for many years had written in recent days saying that he was left without.
Today the "happy" ending: a former soldier who recently lost his wife donated his wife's drugs to the patient who needed them.
The appeal on Libertà was launched by Gigi Ghia, a patient who has been using the Creon drug recently restricted - therefore rationalized - until December 2025 for many years. Yesterday morning at 8am Colonel Giovanni Fuochi, former commander of San Damiano airport, Having read the article, he contacted the editorial team explaining that his wife Giovanna, who passed away a few months ago due to intestinal ischemia, was operated on for malignant carcinoma and was pancreatomized.
She lived for 17 years without further consequences thanks to Creon.
"Her disappearance was sudden and I found myself with a large supply of that drug still sealed" explained the soldier who, having found the contact, handed everything over to Mr. Ghia before midday.
"I already feel like a friend of him. The day has changed. I thank you because you gave me the chance to do something right."
Yesterday, the Libertà editorial team also received other calls from people offering help: "My doctor had prescribed this drug to me, but for a problem that I thought was too light. When I got home, I didn't feel like taking it and I left it as it was. It expires in 2025. If anyone needs it, I have it."
The same head of Gastroenterology in Piacenza Giovanni Aragona had invited those who do not need Creon - and therefore use it for example for digestion or a little irritation - to leave it to those who instead use it daily because they are struggling with cystic fibrosis, a form of chronic pancreatitis, or pancreatic cancer.
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