The patient is discharged today for West Nile virus infection at the Papardo infectious diseases department. After 15 days of hospitalization, in which the patient in therapy has been subjected to hematochimic and diagnostic tests, Mrs. SM is therefore discharged today in ADI – integrated home care – for a home rehabilitation cycle aimed at complete functional recovery affected by the breeding during therapies.
The timeliness of the diagnosis and consequent therapies were crucial for the care and healing of the patient who arrived in the emergency room on the 21st morning with apparently brain symptomatology, reporting fever and nucal rigidity already for 6 days preceding access. The health affair, followed incessantly by the health management directed by Dr. Paolo Cardia, materialized thanks to the effective collaboration of the operating units involved where the protagonists were: dr. Salvatore Calandra, Medical Director of the Emergency Department who took charge of the patient, Dr. Serena Mirone, Medical Director of Infectious Diseases who started the diagnostic process, dr. Antonio Albanese, responsible for infectious diseases that concluded the diagnosis of infection from West Nile, dr. Giuseppe Falliti, director of UOC Clinical Pathology that has been used for the particular analysis of molecular biology, to Dr. Carmen Genellaro who followed the patient during the resignation phase and Dr. Rita Azzolini manager of medical management who, together with the strategic management, immediately started the procedures provided for by the ministerial directives on the subject.
Already from the reporting of the first case in the province, the ASP of Messina intensified the surveillance and monitoring of the situation of the West Nile virus in Sicily.