They carry their little one everywhere, never leaving their child. For six years, a couple from Buddusò has endured an ordeal in courtrooms and hospitals, seeking justice and caring for a child with serious illnesses. And now the couple has received the first civil ruling upholding their requests.
The parents of a child (born in Olbia on July 1, 2019) suffering from spastic tetraplegia, visual and hearing impairment, communication difficulties, dysphagia, and epilepsy, who is fed through a feeding tube . The civil judge ruled, in a partial but immediately enforceable ruling, that the child's "certainly incurable" illnesses were the result of alleged errors committed by the staff of the Giovanni Paolo II Hospital in Olbia .
The problem (at the centre of civil and criminal proceedings) is a cesarean section performed almost three hours late .
The child's mother and father have sued the ATS (Health Protection Agency, renamed the Regional Health Authority in 2022) (Sassari Court, Civil Section) for what they consider to be a very serious case of medical malpractice.
Lawyer Mariella Manai has been emphasizing one point for years: post-anoxic encephalopathy is the consequence of a cesarean section performed approximately three hours late despite "clear signs of fetal distress," thus violating "good clinical practices."
The civil judge, with a provisional order, awarded an initial tranche of compensation to the child's family, but the overall claim is several million euros .
The Sassari Court of Appeal rejected the request to suspend the enforceability of the sentence.
A criminal trial is also underway in Tempio Pausania against a midwife and a doctor at the Giovanni Paolo II Hospital in Olbia . The two healthcare workers believe they acted correctly . Attorney Manai had to file several formal warnings with the Olbia Local Health Authority (ASL) to ensure the child received timely medicines, supplies, and food, as the baby has been fed with Peg since birth.