Sanluri, the heat kills Giuseppe: homeless, he lived on the streets
The 64-year-old had been on the margins of society for years. He went into hyperthermia due to the African temperatures of these days, then he lost consciousness
"Patient is in hyperthermia, unconscious."
The doctors of the San Gavino emergency room on Wednesday evening immediately understood the seriousness of the conditions of Giuseppe Orioni, 64, recovered by the 118 volunteers on a street in Sanluri, and ordered the transfer to the intensive care unit of the Santissima Trinità of Cagliari.
For the man, who had lived on the fringes of society for years, in an illegally occupied farmhouse within the Sanluri sports field, there was nothing they could do: he died yesterday morning without regaining consciousness. According to the doctors, the illness caused by the heat of these days was ultimately fatal.
For several years, the man had lived on the street during the day, and at night he had found refuge in the former ticket office of the San Martino sports field. A small room, where the space was almost entirely occupied by a bed base and a mattress, donated by those who had seen him sleeping on the floor. A nail on the wall to hang a bag with the food he managed to recover and the bottle of water he filled in the public fountains.
He would have died in the street, where he has always lived, if a person passing by hadn't stopped to say hello. She realized immediately that she was very ill. He didn't speak. He was unable to get up to get under the shade of a nearby tree, long enough for help to arrive. Unfortunately useless.
Santina Ravi
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