Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin
said organizational problems were to blame, not the doctors,
after a furore emerged over patients being treated on the floor
at a hospital at Nola, near Naples, at the weekend, due to a
lack of beds and stretchers.
"The doctors did their duty. I don't see what responsibility
they can have," Lorenzin said.
"If there are problems here, it is at a senior level, at the
level of the ASL (health authority) and the 118 (emergency
service)".
Lorenzin sent in the NAS health cops to conduct an inspection
at the Santa Maria della Pietà Hospital after pictures were
posted on Facebook of two women lying on the floor, one of whom
was being treated.
Three doctors were suspended on Monday - hospital health
director, Andreo De Stefano, the head of the emergency ward,
Andrea Manzi, and the head of emergency medicine, Felice Avella
- pending the result of an internal inquiry into the case.
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