TERAMO. The judge accepted the request of the Prosecutor’s Office: a super expert opinion will establish whether there were medical responsibilities for the death of the 66-year-old from Teramo Fernando D’Ostiliowho died on May 30 last year at the Mazzini hospital where he had been hospitalized for over a month.
In the investigation (according to the autopsy results the death was caused by an infection that arose after some surgical operations) there are ten doctors under investigation. The assessment was arranged using the evidentiary incident formula and therefore in the presence of consultants appointed by all parties. The judge Roberto Veneziano appointed the medical examiner Claudio Rigo of Venice, previously health manager of Juventus, e Saverio Donato Pianalto of Padua, surgeon specialized in abdominal surgery. The custody hearing is in June. The request for an evidentiary hearing made to the investigating judge is from the prosecutor Monia Di Marco and was filed after the consultancy ordered at the time of the autopsy was returned in recent days and therefore as an unrepeatable assessment in the presence of consultants appointed by the suspects and the man’s family. According to this consultancy there would have been no medical liability. Thus in this regard we read in the document: «The non-attribution of D’Ostilio’s death to criminally negligent conduct of the doctors who assisted him; no omissions or delays emerge, both diagnostic and therapeutic, which could be included in the deterministic process of D’Ostilio’s death”. The opinion filed by the consultant of the injured parties (the victims’ families) is of a different opinion, according to which, instead, there had been negligent conduct. Different and conflicting conclusions: hence the new medico-legal assessment. D’Ostilio, a well-known former Team employee, died at the Mazzini hospital in Teramo after having undergone some surgical operations. He had been hospitalized for a kidney disease and subsequently underwent some operations during a hospitalization that lasted over a month.
After his death, his family members filed a complaint from which the investigation began with the seizure of medical documentation and an autopsy. Precisely in anticipation of an unrepeatable investigation such as the autopsy, the ten notices of guarantee were sent to as many hospital doctors who had taken care of the patient: an act necessary precisely to allow everyone to nominate their own consultants to participate in the examination. D’Ostilio’s family members are represented by the lawyer Paola De Federicis. The suspects are assisted by lawyers Augusto La Morgia, Alessandro Recchiuti, Adriana Di Felice, Enrico Della Cagna, Antonio Lessiani, Tommaso Navarra, Gaetano Biocca, Gianfrancesco Iadecola, Giuseppe Di Domenico. (dp)
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