Discharged from four hospitals, she died of fulminant bacterial meningitis at 27 .

The Rome prosecutor has opened a file against unknown persons in relation to the death of Valeria Fioravanti. Manslaughter by medical negligence is the felony hypothesis .

The girl, mother of a 13-month-old girl, had gone to various Capitoline hospitals in recent weeks because she was experiencing discomfort after the removal of an abscess carried out on Christmas days.

Before the doctors made the right diagnosis, the girl had been discharged from four hospitals. It all started on December 25 when the woman, an employee of Aeroporti di Roma, went to the Campus Biomedico university hospital to have an abscess removed.

Two days later she returned there, noting that the wound had become infected. On December 29, however, she went to the Casilino hospital for back pain and a severe headache: they diagnosed her with a headache and prescribed anti-inflammatories, and then discharged her . The next day, since the pains didn't go away, she went back to the same hospital, where she would be told to "go home" .

Nothing doing, the symptoms worsened and Valeria decided to go to the emergency room of the San Giovanni hospital, where they once again discharged her. On 5 January she returned to the same structure, in via dell'Amba Aradam, because her conditions continued to worsen. There, a bone marrow examination confirmed meningitis, but it was already too late .

The girl immediately fell into a coma and, despite the emergency operation, died at the Gemelli Polyclinic.

(Unioneonline/L)

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