The intervention of a specialist doctor and two rugby players on the beach of Cortellazzo (Venice) saved from very serious (potentially fatal) consequences a newborn baby of about 15 days who had been left under the sun for a good part of the afternoon , and had serious burns to her chest and face.

When he approached the little girl's family, tourists from Eastern Europe, the doctor realized they hadn't understood the danger the newborn was facing . The mother, in fact, partly because of the language barrier (she didn't speak English), left with the little girl , taking refuge in the tent where she was staying with her husband.

The doctor then alerted the police and the Suem rescuers. The newborn had first-degree burns on her face and chest, and an eyelid swelling, also caused by the intensity of the sun .

"I was just doing my duty," Pierpaolo Serena, a sports medicine specialist at the University of Padua and team doctor for the Omar Villorba rugby team (Treviso) , told Corriere del Veneto. The young man was on the Cortellazzo beach with two rugby players from the Treviso team, Dennis Silva and Alvise Bavaresco , one of whom works on that coast as a lifeguard. Shortly before, they had been approached by some tourists concerned about the little girl's condition, having heard her crying several times .

According to the doctor, one of the two rugby players, Dennis Silva, when he saw the woman walking away with the child, ran barefoot across the beach and chased her, explaining in every way that immediate action was needed . When Serena and the two friends reached the family's umbrella, the little girl was in the shade, but her burns left no doubt about the risk she had taken.

Once on the scene, the police and Suem, the doctor said, "did an exceptional job. They helped the woman out of the tent and treated the child, then transported her first to the hospital in San Donà and then to the one in Padua."

(Unioneonline)

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