Benevento, died at the age of 26 after several operations: hearing postponed

Postponement with protests in the criminal proceedings for the death of Antonio Pagnano26 years old, from Sannita Hill, which occurred on February 5, 2020 after multiple surgeries. The young man’s father clearly protested, shouting “shame” in the courtroom at the postponement of the trial to June 24 due to a lack of notification to one of the two doctors under investigation and ordered by the investigating judge. Roberto Nuzzo. Disappointment that also spread among those who, in view of the hearing of the criminal case, had gathered in front of the courthouse with placards, even in the presence of the mayor of Colle Sannita Miche Iapozzuto. The family of the deceased young man have been waging a battle for some time demanding justice.

Yesterday morning a council meeting was scheduled, after the Prosecutor’s Office requested for the second time that the doctors’ liability be dismissed. They were the lawyers who assist the family members, Antonio Leone and Francesco del Grosso, to explain to family members and protesters the reasons for the new postponement. The story has been going on for a long time. The Prosecutor’s Office had requested an initial dismissal of the case, but accepting the arguments put forward by the lawyers of the young man’s family, the investigating judge Gelsomina Palmieri had ordered the Prosecutor’s Office to carry out another six months of investigations and had entered in the register of suspects, as a necessary act, the two doctors, a surgeon and a radiologist, who at the clinic Saint Rita, located in the city, had subjected the patient who later died to surgery. After his death, the family members and the deputy prosecutor filed a complaint Maria Colucci had entrusted the task of examining the medical records to the medical examiners Lamberto Pinese and Osvaldo Micera (there had in fact been no autopsy).

Subsequently, other experts were appointed, including those designated by the deceased’s family. But the deputy prosecutor had concluded for the dismissal, maintaining that the hypothesis of “a possible medical error among the causes of death had not found sufficient evidence to be able to carry out a criminal action”. But according to the lawyers, Leone and Del Grossoall the consultations had ascertained that the death was linked to one of the operations.

The story, meanwhile, began in November 2019, when Antonio Pagnano underwent surgery at the Nuova Clinica Santa Rita for the removal of a retroperitoneal cavernous lymphangioma. Then complications arose, hence the decision to subject the young man, again at the Santa Rita clinic, to a second operation. But at this point the doctors decided to transfer the patient to the “San Pio” hospital. Here, after about two months of hospitalization and other interventions, he died. Furthermore, the young man’s family members had claimed in their complaints not only the inadequacy of the interventions performed at the Santa Rita clinic, but also the unsuitability of the health facility for the treatment of this pathology because the nursing home did not have a resuscitation department. and vascular surgery specialists.

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