Italian doctor who warned of lack of protective items dies of coronavirus

Marcello Natali complained on an Italian TV channel about the lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to treat patients with coronavirus. Days after the interview, the doctor died of the disease.

The 57-year-old Italian said the latex gloves had run out and that doctors were not prepared for the health crisis in Europe.

“We were certainly not prepared to face such a situation. Also because of our generation, the more antibiotic era – which grew up thinking that a pill against the disease was enough “, said the doctor to the Euronews channel.

The health worker was in Cremona, Italy, a region considered a “red zone”, that is, with many confirmed cases of Covid-19. Upon contracting the disease, Natali was transferred to Milan, where he contracted double pneumonia and died.

According to the Daily Mail, the federation’s regional secretary, Paola Pedrini, revealed that 110 of the 600 doctors in the Italian province of Bergamo are sick. Last Thursday (19), another five Italian doctors died from the new coronavirus, totaling, so far, 13 doctors killed in the country.

To try to contain the spread of the virus, Italy decided to tighten circulation rules even more last Wednesday (18).