A new report on the death of Vincenza Donzellithe Neapolitan cultural animator who died in the summer of 2022after giving life to his son Vincent. He was the gup Federica Colucci to arrange for an expert opinion to define some decisive points for ascertaining responsibility for the woman’s death.
Vincenza was 43 years old, her pregnancy had been peaceful, stress-free, with no traumas. She was operated on by her trusted gynecologist, Luca Zurzolo, freelancer who practiced under an agreement within the International clinic; she then she was transferred to the Cardarelli, where his condition appeared irrecoverable. In this story, they also ended up under accusation Giuseppe Alvanodoctor on call at the gynecology and obstetrics department of the same clinic in via Tasso; Riccardo Morgerahealth director, Francesco Paolo Del Deoresponsible for the grouping.
According to what has emerged so far, in the first phase of the investigations conducted by pm Federica D’Amodiothe woman would have died from disseminated intravascular coagulation, resulting from profuse uterine hemorrhage, which occurred after the caesarean section on August 8, 2022, at the international clinic”.
A reconstruction that requires, in the judge’s opinion, new technical investigations. Judge Colucci writes, also in light of an initial consultancy carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office during the very first phase of the investigations: «It should be noted that the (first) consultancy focuses on the liability profiles of the only registered suspect (who was Zurzolo, at the time of the first examination), and delves into the phase relating to childbirth. As for the postpartum course, the consultancy requires further investigation.”
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And let’s stick to yesterday’s order investigating judge Colucci: «By way of example, the consultants identify hysterectomy as a life-saving measure and declare in their consultation that “the patient needed to be transferred urgently, with the certainty of survival”. However, this statement remains to be explored further, both in terms of the concrete quantification of the urgency and in terms of the certainty of survival”.
Defended by the Neapolitan criminal lawyer Bruno Botti, Zurzolo awaits the results of the new consultancy, appearing determined to provide every element for understanding such a complex matter. Same attitude on the part of the other doctors under investigation, defended by the lawyers Roberto Rapalo, Vania Cirese, Fabrizio Rondino, Salvatore Benincasa, who did not have the opportunity to participate in the autopsy examination, since their names (starting from the list of professionals on duty during the days of Donzelli’s hospitalization) were entered in the register of suspects a few months after his death.
Meanwhile, investigating judge Colucci has cited as a possible civil liability identified in the Health Care Italy, to allow the clinic’s lawyers to appoint their own lawyers. A quote that comes from the lawyer’s work Gaetano Inserraconstituted a civil party on behalf of Andrea Cannavalepartner of the deceased woman and father of the child born thanks to the labor of Vincenza. Also constitute a civil party Francesco Donzelli, Gianluca Donzelli, Anna Scarfiglieri (assisted by criminal lawyers Mario Ivan Esposito, Anna Marcone).
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