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17 May 2019Paura among doctors and patients of the 'Vecchio Pellegrini' hospital in Naples, where last night a young man, armed with a pistol and wearing a helmet, fired several shots into the courtyard at a 22-year-old arrived shortly before due to a bullet that caused injuries to both legs. Shock report of witnesses, according to which the ambush could have caused victims. In a surveillance video, the man is seen shooting towards the stairs, where there were 4 people.

"Along with the injured kid, other minors arrived, at least two of them were smeared, probably here in the hospital but they ran away." This was stated by Giuseppe Fedele, surgeon of the Emergency Department of the Pellegrini Hospital in Naples, who was in the hospital tonight at the time of the shooting. "There was a 16-year-old girl with a smear wound in her lower limbs. We were about to admit her but when I asked her to call her parents, since she was a minor, she ran away. The same did another young man, too he is a minor ".

"We are in a war zone. Shooting in a hospital facility have touched the soul of healthcare". This was stated by Maria Corvino, health director of the Pellegrini hospital in Naples, commenting on the shooting that took place this night in the hospital emergency room in the city center.

"On that emergency room scale a hospital patient could be hit, a patient, anyone could be found on the trajectory of those bullets as happened to Naomi." Antonio Eliseo, director of the Nursind, the union of nurses, at the Pellegrini hospital in Naples where a shooting occurred last night.