Three-day-old newborn dies: three doctors investigated, autopsy ordered. This is the turning point relating to the story of the little boy whose parents lived in Torre del Greco, born in a clinic in Castellammare di Stabia and died at the Monaldi hospital in Naples due to a presumed bacterial infection. The parents turned to the legal office of Studio3A, which presented a complaint to the judiciary, as confirmed by the law firm itself. “The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Naples – we read in a note released by Studio 3A – through the public prosecutor Federica D’Amodio, after having opened criminal proceedings for the hypothesis of the crime of manslaughter in the healthcare sector for the death of a three-day-old newborn which took place on Wednesday 15 May at the Monaldi hospital, has now also ordered the autopsy on the baby’s body and entered it in the register of suspects, also as a necessary act to give them the opportunity to appoint any consultants for the technical investigations not repeatable, three doctors, the gynecologist who followed the mother during the pregnancy, the head of the nursery of the Obstetrics and Gynecology division of the clinic where the baby was born and a pediatrician”. According to what we learn, the baby was born on May 13, after 41 weeks of gestation and a regular pregnancy, with natural birth. The following day the fever would set in, so much so that the child had to be transferred to a more equipped hospital. Taken to San Leonardo in Castellammare, the pediatricians reportedly told the father that the child had already arrived in very serious conditions, with convulsions, tachycardia, respiratory problems and even internal bleeding, with a fever that had risen to 40 degrees. The newborn was admitted to pediatric intensive care, intubated and subjected to drainage and transfusions. On the night between 14 and 15 May he was then transferred to the Monaldi hospital in Naples, a specialized center for prenatal cardiology, where, however, the doctors ruled out cardiac problems, confirming however the extreme seriousness of the situation. On the afternoon of Wednesday 15 May the newborn’s condition worsened, leading to his death. Now the investigation and the decision to carry out the autopsy: today, at 2.30 pm, the task will be given.
