Blocking, as a precaution, of admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit at the Borgo Trento hospital in Verona. According to the newspaper l’Arena, the emergency measure was established by the medical management of the Verona hospital following the discovery of a bacterium in the maternity ward.
The alarm
The alarm was raised after the cases of three premature newborns who tested positive in recent days. The newborns did not develop potentially fatal pathologies but the episode closely resembles what happened four years ago when the facility was closed for four months for the remediation of citrobacter, a bacterium that led to the death of four children and disabled six others. For Professor Ercole Concia, former director of the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Aoui (Integrated University Hospital of Verona), “the picture is very worrying. If they confirm that it is Citrobacter it means that the real source has never been identified and then the department must be literally dismantled because the lives of newborns cannot be put at risk.”
