Public health advocates in the
southern Puglia region said Friday that a 75-year-old
Alzheimer's sufferer died after public health authorities took a
month to schedule him a home visit.
The patient's GP had prescribed an emergency home visit by
a geriatric specialist after the old man's condition
precipitated suddenly.
But local public health employees rejected the GP's
request, telling the patient's wife to file a request for a
normal visit instead.
A doctor would come within a week, the employees told her.
Instead he showed up 33 days later, when the patient had
already died.
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