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01 November 2019Visit, resigned and then rushed to hospital when it was already too late. Thus a child of not even two years old died yesterday morning in the intensive care unit of the 'Infermi' hospital in Rimini.

The child, according to Il Resto del Carlino, had been sick since Tuesday and the parents had alerted the basic pediatrician: he suffered pains in the abdomen, pains that intensified on Wednesday morning. So the parents decided to go to the pediatric emergency room of the Infermi hospital. The health workers underwent some tests and then decided to dismiss him and send him home. Throughout the day he continued to complain to the point that, at one o'clock in the morning, father and mother, frightened by the worsening of his condition, again presented themselves in the emergency room, dehydrated and without strength. The doctors, after realizing the dramatic situation, decided to transfer him to the hospital's intensive care unit, but suddenly the baby's heart stopped beating at around three in the morning.

The family members, under shock and destroyed, presented a complaint to the Public Prosecutor. The magistrate on duty, Davide Ercolani, informed of the death, immediately opened a file against unknown persons. The hypothesis of a crime is that of culpable homicide. The deputy public prosecutor then obtained, through the hospital police and that of the prosecutor's section, all the medical documentation relating to the child's medical history. Prosecutor Davide Ercolani will ask for an autopsy to be performed on the child's body.