Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin
on Thursday called the cover-up of alleged hospital malpractice
in Reggio Calabria a "really scandalous situation". She said
that it was "strange that the complaints came from patients and
not from health managers" at the hospital involved. Four doctors
were put under house arrest and six others were suspended on
Thursday in relation to a probe by prosecutors in Reggio
Calabria into alleged cover-ups of medical malpractice, ANSA
sources said. A midwife was also suspended over the probe into
alleged wrongdoing at the obstetrics and gynaecology,
neonatology and anaesthetic departments of the southern city's
Ospedali Riuniti hospitals. The probe, which began from wiretaps
obtained in an an anti-mafia case, reportedly covers the
suspicious deaths of two newborn babies. Among those involved
are the head and the former head of the obstetrics and
gynaecology department, Alessandro Tripodi and Pasquale Vadal.
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