Friday, August 14, 2009

How Long Will A Broken Ankle Ache

For 58 years .. never forget Alessia Sicolo






http://magazine.ciaopeople.com/News_WorldInfo-1/Cronaca-1/Investita_in_Grecia, _muore_dopo_una_settimana_18enne_napoletana-12568




investment in Greece, dies after week 18 year-old Neapolitan
After seven days of agony, died in Naples Alessia Sicolo, 18years of Vomero, invested in Corfu during a holiday with friends. The parents suffer from shortages of health care Greek hospitals

had long dreamed of this trip with her friends to celebrate the maturity. But his first trip alone has become a bitter fate for the last. Alessandro Sicoli, 18 years old Vomero died a few days ago after being the victim of a serious car accident on the Greek island of Corfu, the chosen destination of its long-awaited summer vacation.

Alessia was hit by a car last July 20 while he was on sediolino back of a quad bike, quad. The strong impact with the car the cantilever air, a flight of ten meters down a ravine. In hospital conditions Alessia not raise concerns initially, only a few hours after starting the first problems to heart and lungs due to rupture of the mitral valve. Parents precipitatisi island, can not help but note the serious deficiencies in health care. "Missing the heart surgeon, best-equipped hospitals in Thessaloniki and Athens there are no vacancies, diagnosis and therapies prove incomplete or otherwise inadequate to deal with the case" refer to the father and the mother of Alessia who decide to return to Naples girl to have them better care.

But the return becomes a real odyssey. Neither the Ministry nor the Civil Defense, nor the Air Force contacted by gentlemen Sicolo are mobilizing to their aid. The only solution is to pay € 14,500 of his own pocket for hire a charter flight company Volitalia. The departure scheduled for Friday but slide one day because of "a delay in the preparation of medical reports, required by the aircraft ICU hospital doctors, convinced that further waiting would have stabilized the clinical condition obtained with the new therapy." Land in Naples, Alessia was immediately admitted to hospital Sao Paulo, but the conditions, five days after the accident, are already very critical. It therefore ordered the transfer of urgency to bring the girl to Monaldi to a reconstruction of the mitral valve. Despite the success of the procedure, the heart stops Alessia beating July 28.

a week. So long did the agony of a young girl who grow up dreaming of being a doctor, and was killed by medical malpractice.

Enrica Raia

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