A pediatrician at Trento's Santa Chiara Hospital has been remanded for trial on charges of injury and refusing to perform official duties in the case of a child who has been in a vegetative state since 2017 because of a piece of cheese made with raw milk. This was reported by the paper Corriere del Trentino. The doctor, according to prosecutor Maria Colpani's reconstruction, "allegedly refused to visit the little boy at Santa Chiara Hospital in a very serious condition despite a colleague's request, and this allegedly caused a delay in the diagnosis of Seu (the hemolytic-uremic syndrome, the one from which the child is suffering, ed.) discovered only three days later, and therefore in the start of treatment". On June 5, 2017, the child, who was 4 years old at the time, had felt ill after eating a piece of "Due Laghi" cheese contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria. Taken to the hospital in Cles (Trento, Italy), he had remained for a few hours for observation, but then, as doctors realized the seriousness of the situation, he was transferred to Santa Chiara Hospital. Here, the pediatrician reportedly refused to examine him.
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