Four docs indicted in newborn death

(ANSA) - Catania, November 9 - Four doctors were indicted Wednesday in the death of newborn Nicole Di Pietro in February, 2015.
    The child went into respiratory distress soon after she was born in a private clinic in Catania, so medical staff tried to move her to a neonatal intensive care facility in the same city.
    Local hospitals denied her a place, so an ambulance tried to rush the newborn to the intensive care facility at a pediatric hospital in Ragusa.
    The two cities lie about 105 kilometres apart by road.
    The baby died en route even as doctors in the ambulance tried to revive her.
    Gynecologist Maria Ausilia Palermo, neonatologist Antonio Di Pasquale, and anesthetist Giovanni Gibiino will be tried for manslaughter. Obstetrician Valentina Spanò must answer charges of making false statements.
    Charges of aiding and abetting against surgeon Danilo Audibert were shelved. Sicilian Carabinieri police probing the case last year said hospitals might be claiming falsely to be full so as to avoid being targeted for spending cuts.