«With regard to the press reports regarding the judicial measures initiated against the former head of plastic surgery of the G. Martino hospital and another manager of the same department, still in service, the general director Giorgio Giulio Santonocito, with the utmost respect for the investigative activity of the judiciary, asked the Messina Prosecutor’s Office for the relevant documents in order to be able to implement the necessary disciplinary measures within the company’s competence».
In the aftermath of the legal storm that had overwhelmed the prof. Stagno d’Alcontres and the other doctors on duty, the Messina Polyclinic had issued a short note in which it explained that it had set the investigation machine in motion on an administrative level. Which now, according to rumors, are at an initial turning point.
Apparently, in fact, based on the news that has emerged in recent days, and evidently after receiving the documents, which are currently visible, from the Prosecutor’s Office, disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against two doctors and a nurse who are included among those under investigation.
For the plastic surgery head nurse, Francesca Melita, the suspension procedure would then be started for 30 days. For Melita, the Prosecutor’s Office, as part of the investigation, had asked the investigating judge for the interdictory measure of suspension from duties for one year, but the judge had rejected it on the assumption that essentially, with the professor being arrested under house arrest. Stagno D’Alcontres, the risk of repeating the crime had disappeared. Apparently the Polyclinic has then made a series of reports on an administrative level in recent hours as part of the investigation: one to Unilav, for a unit of non-medical healthcare personnel, and two to the University for as many “university doctors”, personnel who are obviously being investigated as part of the investigation.
An internal investigation into the whole affair is then underway to verify the anomalies that the magistrates found in the plastic surgery department, also in relation to the stamping of the badges.
