A video of an elderly man with
COVID-19 dying in a toilet in the ER ward of a Naples hospital
has gone viral in Italy, sparking a row.
The man was already being treated for COVID-19 at Cardarelli
Hospital.
The final cause of death is not known, although he is suspected
to have had a heart attack.
Someone got into the toilet to take the video while staff were
away looking for a stretcher for the body, hospital sources
said.
Cardarelli general manager Giuseppe Longo said "it is deplorable
that such events are the subject of exploitation aimed at
constructing terrible and dangerous suggestions in public
opinion".
In the video, the man is seen slumped over the toilet.
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said: "the images of the patient
found dead in Cardarelli Hospital in Naples are shocking".
"...Now we must intervene immediately and we must do so above
all in the South, which risks imploding.
"I believe our government must not waste time and must r
respond, as it has always done".
Di Maio added that "local agencies must safeguard their
citizens".
Naples doctors said Wednesday the situation in the city's
hospitals was "on the verge of collapse", like many others
across the country.
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