Woman dies after being left on ER stretcher 'for 8 days'

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 22 - Romina Gelardi has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Palermo after she said her 76-year-old mother Maria Ruggia was left untreated on a stretcher in the ER of the local Ingrassia Hospital for eight days before she died on December 20, investigative sources said on Sunday.
    "They left my mother on a stretcher in the emergency room of the Ingrassia Hospital from December 10 until December 18", she said.
    "She was moved to the General Medicine ward only on the 19th, when she was already critically ill and could have contracted an infection in the hospital.
    "But at that point it was too late.
    "She died on December 20", said Gelardi, who is represented by attorney Andrea Dell'Aira.
    Police have seized medical charts and an autopsy will be carried out as part of the investigation to determine the cause of death. (ANSA).