The sampling of samples was carried out this morning in the cardiac surgery operating rooms of the Papardo hospital in Messinaseized as part of the investigation conducted by the prosecutor’s office into the deaths of some patients and which matters 11 under investigation. The prosecutor’s office has appointed a consultant to carry out the examination in the operating rooms. Samples have been taken and will now need to be analyzed to verify the existence of any pathogens.
The withdrawal was supposed to be done first about two weeks ago but was then postponed until after the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, the family members of a 70-year-old doctor who died in December 2023 have presented a complaint to the Messina prosecutor’s office. The man, Salvatore Nastasi, suffering from a heart condition, underwent mitral valve replacement surgery performed in May 2023 at the Papardo hospital.
«After the first resignation – reconstructs in a note the lawyer Massimiliano Fabio of the Patti Bar, to whom the man’s family turned – the patient however continued to demonstrate widespread difficulties and tiredness and was once again admitted to the same Papardo hospital with the diagnosis of suspected endocarditis on biological mitral prosthesis, or serious complication from bacterial infection. Two more hospitalizations followed in the medical department, following admission through the emergency room, with unstable vital parameters and particularly critical general conditions. During the last hospitalization the patient was infected with Covid, evidenced by a swab taken the day before his death, which occurred on 25 December 2023″.