“Died from a poorly inserted chest tube.” After the wife’s complaint, the Agrigento prosecutor’s office investigates a doctor

The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Agrigento has opened an investigation to shed light on the death of a 64-year-old man from Campobello di Licata, which occurred on 16 March at the San Giovanni di Dio hospital. A doctor from the hospital, as a necessary act in following the complaint from the patient’s wife, he was entered in the register of suspects for the crime of manslaughter. The prosecutor Gaspare Bentivegna has ordered the autopsy which will be carried out tomorrow afternoon after the assignment has been given to the coroner Antonino Guajana and to the oncologist Nello Grassi.

The criminal case was opened after the complaint of the wife of the man suffering from chronic myelogenous leukemia. The woman, who appointed lawyers as defenders Antonio Tricoli e Giovanni Agate, reports serious negligence that allegedly occurred during the four days of the husband’s stay in the hospital where he presented himself with a respiratory problem. According to her version, he would have remained waiting for 24 hours without any treatment. Only after the woman’s insistence was he transferred to the general medical clinic and subjected to a CT scan which highlighted the presence of chest fluid.

The wife of the sixty-four year old claims that a feeding tube would have been inserted without any anesthesia and, above all, incorrectly so as to cause a leakage of liquid. As evidenced by a CT scan.