"We tried to thaw the heart with cold water, then lukewarm water, then hot water." The investigators investigating the death of Domenico, the child who died at Monaldi Hospital after a transplant of a damaged heart , have included the testimony collected by prosecutors from three nurses who were present in the operating room when the heart arrived from Bolzano .

The basket was removed, and inside was the heart, transformed into a lump of ice. Hence the desperate attempts of the medical staff. Then the decision of cardiac surgeon Guido Oppido, who felt it was inevitable, "due to the lack of alternatives," to transplant the heart into Domenico anyway , who would die two months later.

Testimonies that shed further light on the dramatic events of that afternoon of December 23rd.

Meanwhile, yesterday, ministry inspectors and NAS Carabinieri arrived in Bolzano .

And for the first time, interviewed by Corriere, little Domenico's father spoke out, unable to contain his anger over that heart transported in a "picnic fridge." And not just because of that: "On December 23rd, the doctors didn't have the courage to tell us the truth. I understood that things had gone badly because after New Year's Eve, all the doctors disappeared. No one came to tell us anything; it was over, but we still didn't know . So, when everything came out, I was very nervous, and three days before Domenico died, I had a nasty argument with the security guards. The same ones who then came to hug me sincerely last Saturday, in the hospital, when he died."

(Unioneonline)

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