“The my daughter’s condition was underestimated and he understood only after two and a half hours of absolute negligence». The father of Ludovica Puce, the 2-year-old girl from Sannicola di Lecce who died in December of fulminant viral encephalitis (probable consequence of an influenza virus) at the Vito Fazzi hospital, wants clarity. He wants to understand if the lost time was decisive for the death of the little girl. To the Corriere della Sera he explained: “My daughter was fine, but I lost her in a few days,” and decided to file a complaint against the Gallipoli hospital.
The facts date back to 26 December: «Ludovica had a fever of 41. Once we reached the emergency room of the Gallipoli hospital, we were immediately diverted to the pediatric one. She was left on the couch for an hour and a half without even being given a drip. Any doctor would be alarmed: my daughter showed no signs of life, she had no reactionshe had completely collapsed. They said it was normal, due to the flu virus. They only “reevaluated” her when I started taking photos and videos: they tried to give her a drip, but they had difficulty finding her veins because my daughter was already dehydrated. That’s when they started to worry too.”
Only then, the little one was transferred to the Vito Fazzi of Lecce. “They wanted me to carry it. I had to insist on getting an ambulance, but with no doctor on board. They said it was “nothing serious”, so much so that she was discharged with a green code». At the Lecce hospital, Ludovica was immediately intubated, and three days later, on December 29, she died.
According to the parents, assisted by the lawyer Alessandro Greco, the child was not assisted in the Gallipoli emergency room in the correct way: she was assigned a green code and her illness was attributed to a flu. It will be up to the Prosecutor of Lecce the task of assessing whether there have been professional responsibilities on the part of the doctors.
Source: Vanity Fair
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