A 63-year-old woman from Scafati waited seven hours at Umberto I Hospital in Nocera Inferiore for severe foot pain, was discharged with a sprain diagnosis, and later learned she had a comminuted foot fracture, according to a report in Il Mattino Salerno. The case has led to a formal complaint to judicial authorities.
According to the report, the woman attended the hospital emergency department because of severe foot pain. After a seven-hour wait, an X-ray was said to show no fracture, and she was discharged with a diagnosis of sprain.
The article says she was scheduled for an orthopedic outpatient visit the following day, but the orthopedic doctor was absent.
After the woman insisted on further examination, a later CT scan identified a comminuted foot fracture, the report states. She was then given a brace and instructed not to walk or bear specified loads for at least one month.
An exposto-denuncia was reportedly submitted to judicial authorities and also sent to the Carabinieri and consumer-protection associations.
The allegations have not been independently verified in the available reporting. The report does not establish whether criminal proceedings were opened or what decision, if any, the prosecutor reached, and it does not include a response from the hospital, the doctor concerned, or the relevant health authority.
