Injured child's relatives wreck hospital

(ANSA) - Taranto, June 28 - The relatives of a two-year-old boy who fell down a stairwell vandalized two public hospitals over alleged delays in the of the infant, public health authorities in Taranto said Tuesday.
    The child suffered serious head wounds after falling four meters from a residential building staircase that didn't have a guardrail.
    He was taken to Moscati Hospital and then transferred to Santissima Annunziata Hospital in central Bari, where he was admitted with a reserved prognosis. His relatives damaged doors and windows and wrecked the radiology department at Mosconi Hospital in a rage over alleged delays in diagnosing and transferring him.
    Police had to intervene at the second hospital as well, public health officials said.
    They added that medical personnel did their utmost for the infant and that stooping to vandalism in a public hospital is "a true moral defeat" while respecting public health facilities is what "distinguishes us from savages".
    The little boy's condition has reportedly improved.