Palermo Organ Donation: A Unique Legacy
- Hopes of life will be born from the tragedy, also in Palermo.
- The medical team has taken heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and corneas that will allow seven people, from Bari to Rome, from Palermo to Turin to have a...
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Hopes of life will be born from the tragedy, also in Palermo. Seven people will receive the organs of Filippo Verterame, the 22-year-old from Isola capo Rizzuto mortally wounded in the throat wiht a stabbing at the height of a fight that broke out in the seaside resort in Cinnamon, in Calabria. The young man died yesterday at the Pugliese-Ciaccio hospital in Catanzaro where the doctors tried in vain to save him.The carotid wound, however, left him no way out. The young man’s family, always engaged in the social through some associations that deal with the most fragile people, has given consent to the organs for the donation.Procedure that was also authorized by the Crotone prosecutor.
The medical team has taken heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and corneas that will allow seven people, from Bari to Rome, from Palermo to Turin to have a normal life.The explanatory was performed by the structure of the intensive care of the university hospital ‘Dulbecco’ directed by the doctor Anna Grande. the deputy prosecutor Pasquale Festa has set for tomorrow the transfer of the assignment for the execution of the autoptic exam on the body of Filippo Verterame.