Condolences, fear and disbelief: so the city has accepted the news of the death of the child of 5 years for meningitis . And close to the young couple of parents who yesterday had the courage to ' grant' the last wishes of the child . Mom and Dad went to Porto Venere and asked the mayor that their child could be buried in the monumental cemetery of the village.
Just the day before his death, in fact, the child had taken a trip to Porto Venere with his parents and asked to visit the little cemetery, a place of peace overlooking the sea. An 'unusual' request for a child, but that parents have grasped as a wish to be fulfilled in the most tragic hour.
The funeral will take place on Monday at 14.30 in the church of Cadimare, where the child lived with his parents. And where he used to play with his little friends the day after tomorrow, together with his kindergarten classmates, they will gather to greet him. Friends and classmates, together with family members and those who have recently had direct and continued contact with the baby, have been subjected to antibiotic prophylaxis, started by ASL5 already on Thursday afternoon at the Marola nursery school.
The procedures for the administration of the drugs ended the other evening on 172 people (35 adults and 137 children), the children and the school staff of the school of Marola, people who frequent a swimming pool, the cohabitants of the child and the medical staff of a dental clinic where the child had been in the past few days. The directors of the complex structures of the Asl5 Hygiene and Public Health, Francesco Maddalo, and Infectious Diseases, Stefania Artioli, who met the parents of the child's parents at the school in Marola, report that about 90% of the children undergoing prophylaxis he was still vaccinated for meningococcus C. Not the diseased child.