The Garibaldi hospital in Catania was convicted by the Civil Court of Catania to compensation for damages for the death of a 69-year-old patient who died on 6 March 2017, after the hospital doctors failed to diagnose her with myasthenia gravis in October 2016.
The patient, with serious difficulty in articulating words, chewing and swallowing, was discharged after being hospitalized for four days with a diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease which did not justify the symptoms she was experiencing. The correct diagnosis was made after a subsequent hospitalization, which took place in February 2017, but, according to the theory of the woman’s family, it was now too late, and the patient, furthermore, would not even have been admitted to intensive care after she had shown a paresis of the respiratory muscles.
The Civil Court of Catania condemned the hospital to pay 168,000 euros for the woman’s daughter and 57,000 euros for her granddaughter, for the loss of her relative. In addition to 48,800 euros in favor of the heir daughter for the terminal damage, i.e. that suffered by the victim due to the conscious perception of the inevitable approach of death.
Payment of legal expenses in favor of Studio Seminara & Associati was also ordered Catania who assisted mother and daughter with lawyers Dario Seminara and Lisa Gagliano.
