February 28, 2011. Michienzi Sara, nine, dies after an operation for removal of the tonsils in the department of otolaryngology hospital Lamezia Terme (Catanzaro). One of those interventions known as "routine" that should have no contraindications and that doctors should carry out practically with your eyes closed.
But something goes wrong.
Why did Sarah die after a few days to a 'haemorrhage developed around the operated zone "but also - as the autopsy report - 'a concomitant respiratory failure." That same respiratory depression which prompted his mother, Isabella Notaro to take her to the emergency room. " alright, do not worry 'was the answer. Probably the same as in 2003, Ms. Notaro was heard to say when her husband dies of a heart attack after being hospital in Vibo Valentia to be examined. Or maybe the same answer I gave in December 2007 to parents of Eva Ruscio, 16, died of a tracheotomy, or the parents of Federica Monteleone, also 16 year old and she died in hospital in Vibo following a power outage while he was in room operatoria.
In tutti questi casi la parola d'ordine dei giornalisti è stata una sola: malasanit à . Tra la fine di aprile 2009 ed il dicembre 2010 – secondo i dati della Commissione Parlamentare d'Inchiesta sugli errori in campo sanitario e sulle cause dei disavanzi sanitari regionali presieduta dall'esponente IdV Leoluca Orlando – quello di Sara Michienzi è il 78esimo caso di malasanità avvenuto in Calabria su un totale di 326 su tutto il territorio nazionale.
Quel che risalta immediatamente by reading the local news is that in the team who worked on the case of Sarah was Gianluca Bava, investigated and then cleared 'for not having committed the crime "to investigate the case of Eve. Maybe just a tragic fate, or maybe something different will be the task of the judiciary to investigate.
Beyond the names, however, what is obvious - as in Calabria, Lombardy, Lazio as Campania - is that rather than a problem of names, the Italian health system has a problem of appointments, and that is why I speak of "medical malpractice" means everything and it means nothing.
In November 2009, the Ministry for Equal Opportunity filed a spot against homophobia (from the setting in hospital) that asked the viewer to the degree of interest of certain characteristics of the staff - in more or less theoretical - could one day save his life.
deleted from that spot all the work done in the specifics of the fight against homophobia (and thus ignoring all the debate that came out, as this is not what I'm interested in here), you could add a small but crucial question, which might sound more or less like this: " Of this you more interested to know if it belongs to a gang, a party, or not you care? "
Why is this, today, the first question to ask when you are faced with a white coat. This applies to hospitals in Vibo, where the ' Provincial Health Agency was dissolved for mafia infiltration last December as well as in health care that is modeled after the Lombard wishes policy
In this first part of the hypothetical "Tour of Italy in poor health care" remain in the South, starting our tour in the health of Calabria, where between 'ndrine parties and it's not clear who would be "criminal ". In the second episode, however, we will look into the "system of Puglia" in the fight Tarantini-German and the acquittal of Nichi Vendola that he wanted to change the law because he is unable entrusting a post of Director General to his pupil. In the third and last part, however, go up to the north. Let's see what happens in Lombardy in the shadow of Communion and Liberation.
But step by step ...
Jazzolino, the hospital of wrongdoing
Serious deficiencies in terms of sanitation and prevention of accidents at the workplace, the large number Suspicious deaths (except in the case of Sarah, the other three reported cases occurred in opening all the "Jazzolino"); bribes; procurement and recruitment controlled by 'ndrine and at least one case of defacement of the corpse (as reported by the agency Adnkronos, January 13 last year, the special commissioner of the ASP Vibo Alessandra Sarlo ha disposto in via cautelare l'allontanamento di un ausiliario specializzato reo di aver estratto la protesi dentaria di una anziana donna da poco deceduta). Sono solo alcuni degli allarmi lanciati in merito all'ospedale civile di Vibo, che era invece stato pensato come struttura di specializzazione (“ spoke ”, in gergo tecnico) per quanto riguarda i campi di Medicina generale, Chirurgia generale, Anestesia, Ortopedia, Ostetricia, Pediatria, Cardiologia, Neurologia, Dialisi per acuti, Endoscopia di urgenza, Psichiatria, Oculistica, Otorino, Urologia, Medicina e Chirurgia d'urgenza e con servizi di Radiologia “h 24”. Insomma: sulla carta quell'ospedale avrebbe dovuto rappresentare uno degli focal point of the lattice health Calabrian and instead went to the news as "the hospital of shame". Yet in the hospital, according to certify the ASL vibonese in 2008, there were even 153 highly skilled physicians, including this surgeon who had made exempt from the operating room because a friend of the bottle too.
Apparently the requirements for obtaining the high specialization were others.
"It's a very complicated discussion, that the health of Calabria. (...) There is a gray zone of widespread lawlessness. And do not forget that the hospital is Vibo Commissioner for mafia infiltration. "
What kind of mafia infiltration we talking about?
"Contracts, Jobs for the new hospital services such as soup kitchens, laundry ... the presence in the local health authorities of persons who had formed part of a mafia organization"(...)"A Vibo there are very good doctors, would be a grave mistake to generalize. There are cases like that of Eva Ruscio involving a pure medical error, which can happen in Milan, Florence, Palermo ... the other thing is to want to work at all costs in an operating room is not suitable, as was the case Monteleone. There is not just doctors, are the responsibility of those who ran the scheme '
claimed a few days ago the chief prosecutor Mario Spagnuolo in an interview with Corriere della Sera (here' s Article: http://www.inail.it/repository/ContentManagement/information/P1860818406/XU99N.pdf ).
In the case of Federica Monteleone, however, there is a whole series of questions - still looking for answers - that revolve around the figure of the former Chief Prosecutor of Vibo Alfredo Laudon, which would have allowed not only that the investigation departed late ( so as to allow the pollution right from the start), but also is guilty of the offenses of false ideologies, omission of official acts and abetting, the GUP of Salerno Vincenzo Di Florio translated in 1 year and 8 months ( suspended sentence), being ordered to pay court costs and compensation of all moral and material damages.
It is clear that the work to be vitiated by Laudon want to cover something o qualcuno. Chi (o cosa), però, non ci è dato sapere.
Le mani sull'ospedale (che non c'è).
Per capire quanto sia appetibile la torta della sanità calabrese basti considerare un dato: l'80% della spesa pubblica della regione è destinato a questo comparto. È dunque scontato l'interessamento delle 'ndrine (cioè dei Mancuso, dei Lo Bianco e dei Fiarè). L'Azienda Sanitaria sciolta lo scorso dicembre è praticamente di loro proprietà. Le gare per gli appalti sono praticamente inesistenti o perché every time you used the extensions or because they are parceled out to not end up under the lens of anti-mafia control. All this, of course, in the interests of the few local companies that share each € (public) allocated by the Region. That the companies due to the 'ndrine, then, is a type of competition that swallows everything, just weighing - for example - that company that takes care of meals in the north to the hospital which took eight grandchildren Rosario Fiara the boss (not counting various affiliates and "sympathizers") or the company who are assigned work on the air-conditioned building, whose technical director is the boss's son-White Caramel.
The competition of 'ndrine is unfair competition and we know it. Unfair almost as much of the parties. It is difficult if not impossible, to understand which of metastasis is the most destructive.
The "boom" of hospitals.
In the plain of Gioia Tauro are seven: Palmi, Polistena, Rosarno, Tauranga, Oppido, Mamertina, Gioia Tauro, Novigrad. In total there are 42 (38 private clinics), and in some cases made Civil Defence emergency decree.
Seven hospitals in October 2007, unable to save the lives of Flavio Scutellà, twelve years, who died as a result of a hematoma that was procured from the head on the pavement. Flavio die because there is no place in a hospital or an ambulance that can go there to take it or - even - there is not even first aid.
Because those seven hospitals are "electoral hospitals, good only as a bag from which to draw ratings (in exchange) for the political class. All, without exception. But where, however, controls the UDC.
Tengo company ...
"I would like a company that is UDC." To say it is, in 2006, Santo Garofalo, former director general of the Asl number 8, Vibo. "Do not forget," - explained the same in another interception - ' Vibo Tassone and is not either of those other Ranieli nor Stillitani. The three companies: one for Galati, one of Tassone and the other Trematerra . Mario Tassone, parliamentary UDC until 2008 in the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the Mafia. Pino Galati, Union of the Centre and in 2003 he accused - along with Emilio Colombo and Gianfranco Micciche - as part of the drug scandal in Rome, "good" (the same scandal that also involved the other UDC Apples) and Gino Trematerra, and currently own party MEP.
Ranieli, rather, is Michele Ranieli, UDC himself, who in 2004 meets the repentant Domenico Cricelli " Eh, did you see who I am ... the jobs that I take Lello Fusco, however, if not give me 1 million and € 700 000, work, do not take him 'were the words spoken by Ranieli. The conditional is a must when it comes to repent.
What is certain, however, is that who would win the contract to build the new hospital should have given the 2% in the UDC. Do not bribe or take a friend for some local exponent. That 2% was paid to national leaders.
The company chosen to win the contract and the Consortium of Tie Liso Domenico and Domenico Scelsi (also entered in their investigations), a consortium whose real job was solely to act as a bridge between "the territory" the Rome headquarters of the party. It was just one of the leading figures of the UDC - called " the doctor" - to award the contract to a Tie.
€ 1,765,000 the total amount of bribe (At least the first installment), hidden in 16 bills with which to honor the "contract design" agreement between P & P Construction of Lamezia Terme (first sub-contractor of the works) and the ICOP spa. Company, that company is owned by the same tie.
From that one million and seven hundred sixty-five thousand euro, however, you have to remove four hundred thousand that would be used to pay the rup (Head of the Procedure Act) Francesco Vitiello to let him drive the contract and other six hundred and ninety thousand went to George Campisi, 66, surveyor and leader of the UDC that it would take over Sicily "security at the site" (translation: keep the good 'ndrine).
In all this, however, there must also be said that there were those who tried to change things (as we shall see also in "bet Lombard"). Doris Lo Moro until 30 November 2007 was the Health Department came Loiero. But Ms Lo Moro had a small "defect" would not allow "his", those of the Democratic Party, to enter the business.
But the chances of success were below zero. Suffice it to say that among his enemies was Peppino Biamonte, lo stesso che faceva – letteralmente – carte false per far arrivare 500.000 euro alla clinica Villa Anya di Domenico Crea, il “dio” dell'Asl 11 di Reggio al quale Biamonte rispondeva con un più che eloquente “agli ordini” ogni volta che alzava il telefono.
Ed a proposito di privato, in tutta questa storia c'è anche spazio per gli uomini di Dio: don Alfredo Luberto è il titolare della casa di cura Papa Giovanni di Serre, vicino Cosenza. Come tanti, come troppi, anche a lui la Regione elargiva una parte di denaro che sarebbe dovuto andare, nello specifico, alla cura dei 363 degenti della casa di cura. Degenti che invece vivevano nel lerciume e con la scabbia him as Monsignor Luberto includes pictures (not to mention the fourteen cars owned by him), to furnish their apartment with luxury furniture and of course, thought of the "care" of your bank account.
Obviously Monsignor Luberto - to quote a well-known joke - is the spiritual power that will not die in poverty as that of Christ, which fill the mouth.
But that's another story ...
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