Justice is partly done after eight years of civil and criminal hearings. The Court of Rieti issued the sentence in civil proceedings initiated by the family members of a woman, Teresa Imperatori, originally from Belmonte in Sabino died on 23 July 2013 while she was hospitalized in the general medicine ward of the De Lellis hospital accepting the request of damages (400 thousand euros). In fact, the judge accepted the defense arguments of the family members, supported by the lawyers Giorgio Cavalli (for the spouse, child and granddaughter) and by the lawyer Cristian Bagliocchi (for the siblings of the victim).
In practice for the court of Rieti “The existence of the causal link between the omissive conduct of the medical team and the death event of the patient was ascertained, having been ascertained on the basis of the” more likely than not “principle, that the conduct assumed by the doctors led to the death patient, for omission of the differential diagnosis of heart attack and for not having performed clinical tests that would have allowed both a therapy and an intervention in hemodynamics, such as to avoid death “. The Asl di Rieti will therefore be called upon to compensate the non-pecuniary damage in favor of family members for damage to the parental bond. Let us remember that it is The criminal trial is also underway, which sees four doctors from the Rieti ASL accused for the death of the 73-year-old. The accusation is heavy: manslaughter, omission and negligence. To end up in the dock Paolo Scapato, Ylenia Tari, Valeria Cornacchiola and Paola Cerroni, all at the time of the events were serving in the women’s medicine ward of the San Camillo de’Lellis hospital in Rieti. For a fifth doctor, on the other hand, the non-place was prepared to proceed as part of Medicine for men and therefore not directly involved in the facts.
The woman died after a five-day hospitalization from gallbladder problems. During his stay in the hospital, however, he would have begun to accuse stomach and back pains, probably attributable to a heart attack that the medical staff would not have noticed. The pain of what happened was also mixed with anger and so the family members, the husband and the son, assisted by the lawyer Giorgio Cavalli, and the woman’s brothers, assisted by the lawyer Cristian Bagliocchi immediately presented a complaint to shed light on the episode and after an initial filing requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and against which the lawyer of the family members of Teresa Imperatori presented an opposition, the judge for preliminary investigations Andrea Fanelli, ordered a probative incident and a further forensic expertise, which turned out to be decisive for the purposes of reopening the process. Yesterday the conclusion of the civil proceedings while in September the criminal proceedings will be back in the courtroom.
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