In Sicily, the Court of Appeal of Catania has just acquitted four doctors — Silvana Campione, Giuseppe Maria Alberto Calvo, Alessandra Coffaro, and Vincenzo Filippello — in the case of Valentina Milluzzo, 32 years old, who died from septic shock at the Cannizzaro Hospital on 16 October 2016. Milluzzo was pregnant with twins, who were miscarried shortly before her death, after 17 days of hospitalization in that hospital’s Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
The four doctors had been found guilty of manslaughter by the Court of Catania in October 2022 and received a suspended sentence of six months. They appealed, however, and the recent decision by the Court of Appeal, ruled that “the facts grounding the offence do not exist”.

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