Health · Healthcare & Policy · 5 hrs ago
Wife seeks investigation after 64-year-old dies following hospital visits
Enrico Saverio Giannino, 64, died on 10 October at a hospital in Garbagnate Milanese, near Milan.
He had gone to emergency departments in Garbagnate and Magenta twice over several days with abdominal pain, and was discharged both times.
A specialist visit led to emergency surgery at the Garbagnate hospital on 8 October.
His wife says she was told doctors found a perforation in his duodenum, and that his condition worsened in intensive care.
His wife filed a complaint asking prosecutors to investigate whether there were errors or negligence.
The complaint requests medical records and an urgent medical examination, while an investigation into the circumstances of his death is under way.
Enrico Saverio Giannino, 64, died on 10 October after hospital visits and emergency surgery at Garbagnate Milanese.
His wife filed a complaint asking prosecutors to investigate possible errors or negligence.
Giannino first went to Garbagnate’s emergency department on 5 October with severe abdominal pain and was discharged with a diagnosis of urinary retention and prostatitis.
He was taken by ambulance to Magenta’s hospital on 7 October and discharged, then transferred to emergency care at Garbagnate on 8 October for urgent surgery.
His condition worsened in intensive care, and he died at the hospital.
- Who
- Enrico Saverio Giannino, 64, died; his wife filed the complaint.
- What
- His wife asked prosecutors to investigate his death after hospital visits and emergency surgery.
- When
- He died on 10 October 2026. His hospital visits took place from 5 to 8 October.
- Where
- At hospitals in Garbagnate Milanese and Magenta, in the Milan metropolitan area.
- Why
- His wife wants to establish whether there were errors or negligence in his care.
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Giannino went to the emergency department in Garbagnate with severe abdominal pain and was discharged with a diagnosis of urinary retention and prostatitis.
He was taken by ambulance to the hospital in Magenta and was discharged about an hour later, according to his wife.
After a urology visit in Garbagnate, he was transferred to the emergency department for urgent surgery.
Giannino died in intensive care at the hospital in Garbagnate Milanese.
- Patient
- Enrico Saverio Giannino, 64
- First emergency visit
- 5 October 2026, Garbagnate Milanese
- Second emergency visit
- 7 October 2026, Magenta
- Urgent surgery transfer
- 8 October 2026, Garbagnate Milanese
- Death
- 10 October 2026, Garbagnate Milanese
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What people are saying
I want to know if there were errors or negligence
that the execution of an autopsy or other urgent medico-legal examination be assessed