FOGGIA. The poison control center of the Policlinico Riuniti in Foggia was activated yesterday, late in the morning to provide an emergency antidote to a 7-year-old Swedish girl on vacation in Tuscany with her family, bitten by an Italic bat.
To alert the Apulian health facility was the emergency room of the Ospedali Riuniti of Livorno of the USL Toscana Nord-Ovest. The poison control center of Foggia (which in the future will become Banca Antidoti Diffusa Puglia), directed by Anna Lepore, from a first search by the clinicians of the Emergency Department of Livorno, also followed by the confirmation of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, was the only structure dedicated on the national territory to have at the moment the immediate availability of the antidote.
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Activated in an emergency, the staff of the Poison Control Center of the Policlinico Riuniti of Foggia, arranged and coordinated the entire process, from the antidotic supply to the remote medical management of the little patient, currently still followed by the doctors of the Cav. “This case highlights the importance of the activity carried out by the Poison Control Center of Puglia, an indispensable structure in the management and urgent supply at national and regional level of antidotes that are difficult to find,” said the general manager of the Policlinico Riuniti of Foggia Vitangelo Dattoli.
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