Sick and dead from infected blood: Cagliari's ASL pays 227 thousand euros in annuities a year
The recipients are victims of the wrong transfusions and their relatives: for each about 1700 euros every two months
In one year, medical errors linked to transfusions or contacts with infected blood that have caused deaths or irreversible pathologies cost the Cagliari Local Health Authority 227,238.90 euros.
The sum was allocated with a resolution of the general manager, Marcello Tidore, and is used for the payment of one year of annuities, established by law, intended for the sick. Or to their relatives, if the death has been registered.
For each there are bimonthly checks for around 1,700 euros each: among them are six widows.
The funds are due, on the basis of law 210\92, which recognizes "a lifelong compensation, divided into categories, to injured parties who present irreversible damage from post-transfusion hepatitis, to health workers for contact with blood on the occasion or during service, for contagion from the spouse or mother already compensated or to the heirs of injured parties who died as a result of pathologies recognized pursuant to the law.
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
