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September 29, 2019He rejected the transfusion, which could have saved her life, due to strong religious reasons, and died a few days later. It happened in the Caserta area, the protagonist and victim of a story, reported by the newspaper "Il Mattino", is a 70-year-old woman, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, a confession that prevents the adepts from "mixing" the blood of others with their own; in health terms, Jehovah's Witnesses therefore reject transfusions to the extreme. The head of the Department of General Surgery of the hospital of Piedimonte Matese where the woman was hospitalized, could not help but surrender in front of the manifest willingness to not receive treatment, while the relatives of the old woman, also Jehovah's Witnesses, they supported and defended the choice. "So my mother decided," said her son to the primary Gianfausto Iarrobino, former president of the Caserta City Council; he told Facebook of what had happened, talking about suicide and euthanasia, which he said in days when there was a lot of talk about assisted suicide following the ruling of the Council that asked for an intervention by the legislator.

"Today I am sad and pissed off," says Iarrobino, who then, speaking of the patient, says: "I would have saved her 100%, but she refused and died. Her children and relatives in solidarity with her. I clashed with everyone "In the end, the children got excited saying," Mom you were great, you gave a lesson to all the doctors and the whole department. I wonder: how can a religion still allow suicide today? " concludes Iarrobino, who at the end of the story inserts the hashtag # eutanasiapiedimontechirurgia #.

I have been a surgeon for 30 years and it is the first time that I remain powerless against a drastic decision of a patient of mine who for religious reasons refuses treatment and dies ". She comments on the phone with Adnkronos, the head of the surgical department of civil hospital of Piedimonte Matese (Caserta), Gianfausto Iarrobino.