Former head physician of Poma, he graduated in Modena with 110 cum laude before arriving at the hospital. The war on Covid with plasma between the wards and TVs
CURTATONE. A doctor like many others who, however, with the outbreak of the pandemic, has become an icon in the fight against the disease. Giuseppe De Donno was 54 years old and had resigned from the Mantua hospital in the first days of June to begin, on 5 July, the new profession of general practitioner in Porto Mantovano. Too much stress, probably the desire to start a new path. The former primary lived with his wife Laura and two children, Martina, a municipal councilor in Curtatone, and Edoardo.
De Donno, together with Massimo Franchini, head of Immunohematology and Transfusion at Carlo Poma, had begun to treat patients with Covid who arrive exhausted at Poma with hyperimmune plasma therapy. Not everyone, however, in the field of medicine was convinced of this and so much controversy broke out about De Donno. However, he held out and managed to get an experimentation of his method with the University of Pavia. In the end, official medicine did not consider that this was the most suitable cure for Covid, even if many recovered by bonding forever with eternal gratitude to the Mantuan primary.
Giuseppe De Donno became acting head physician of the Carlo Poma Pneumology in September 2018 and then in December of the same year he won the competition as effective primary. De Donno was also known outside the hospitals for having been in the past deputy mayor of Curtatone. Graduated from high school, he graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Modena with 110 cum laude. After his university studies he completed his training through various specialization courses in pathophysiology and respiratory allergology, reaching specialization in 1996. From 2010 to 2013 he was responsible for the simple structure «High intensity respiratory home care program for patients dependent on home mechanical ventilation »And in 2013 he became medical director of the complex structure of Pneumology and Utir (respiratory intensive unit) of Asst Carlo Poma.
A great fan of Juventus and Mantova (the red and white club expressed their condolences through an official statement), she was a great fan of sports, from football to cycling. Without forgetting his love for the sea of Puglia, in particular of that Salento of which he was originally.