The complaint of a 51-year-old to the prosecutors of Benevento and Padua
In November 2023, he presented a complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Padua and Benevento, requesting that the alleged negligence of the doctors who treated his mother, who died in the city on 1 October 2022 from pancreatic cancer whose treatment was delayed, be prosecuted. diagnosis. DP, 51 years old, from Benevento, who has lived in Veneto for some time, is convinced of this.
The victim, FR, 79 years old, died more than a year after he started having problems. The son’s story starts from June 2021, when the pensioner began to experience continuous pain in the epigastric area with posterior radiation, loss of appetite, general malaise. She suffered from hyperglycemia and hiatal hernia, she had first turned to her family doctor, then to an endocrinologist who after a few months had prescribed a gastroscopy.
The situation had not improved, in fact, to the point that the woman was admitted to the New Santa Rita clinic, where she was diagnosed with “diverticulosis in diverticulitis”, despite an abdominal CT scan, claims the 51-year-old, indicating presumed elements of suspected neoplastic disease .
The patient was discharged in May 2022, a month later she reached Padua, where she had fallen ill which required her to be transferred by ambulance to the central emergency room, which she subsequently left with a prescription for paracetamol for the pain. She had returned to Benevento, in July she had been very ill and had been transferred to San Pio, where her tests had revealed the presence of a pancreatic carcinoma which had now heavily metastasized.
