Andrea Mirabile, six years old, began to feel ill on Friday last week: dysentery, vomiting. With his parents she was on vacation since July 26 in a luxury resort in Sharm el-Sheik. The baby died within hours on Saturday of last week. The father is in intensive care. Only mild symptoms for the mother. The Egyptian judiciary has opened an investigation. The Foreign Ministry is following the story of the Palermo family which still has details to be clarified.
When the child began to feel ill, the parents thought about heatstroke. The first to have pain and nausea were the father, Antonio, and the mother, Rosalia, four months pregnant. On the hotel’s recommendation, they went to the medical guard who diagnosed food poisoning. Father and son were given a saline drip for dehydration and prescribed some pills. Upon returning to the hotel, the parents called the doctor who follows them to Palermo and he confirmed that they were drugs against food poisoning.
However, there was no improvement in the father and the child, so much so that the mother asked to call an ambulance. The story, reported by Corriere della Serais from Roberto Manosperti, the woman’s brother: “Desperate, they ran tointernational hospital from Sharm, but Andrea died on arrival at the hospital. Shocked, my sister told me that the doctors tried to resuscitate the baby for an hour. My brother-in-law is serious and is in resuscitation with heart, kidney and lung problems: he has had very low saturation for days ».
Family members say the couple had always eaten inside the resort and always drank bottled water. The request is now to bring him home as soon as possible. “We tried to hire a private flight to get them back but apart from the cost that is around 35 thousand euros, we would have to wait at least four days before leaving. In addition, the medical team that should come on board asks for the medical reports that they do not give us from the hospital. They only gave us a report that our Palermo doctor defines as incomplete and contradictory ».
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Source: Vanity Fair
