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September 28, 2019A 7-year-old girl died of malaria at the Alessandria Children's Hospital. The child, who lived in Carbonara Scrivia in Tortona (Alessandria), was admitted yesterday afternoon in a serious condition. In a very short time she was diagnosed with the disease and the child was immediately transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care unit, but the treatments were in vain.

Malaria - specifies the Alexandrian hospital company - would have been contracted during a trip to Africa, in her mother's native country. " very serious: the diagnosis of malaria was made in a timely manner and was transferred to a pediatric intensive care unit for targeted therapy. Despite the high professionalism of the treatments and the immediacy of the interventions, the child died in the evening ".

The Italian child's father would have filed a complaint to ask for health problems.