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Homicide probe opened after damaged-heart-transplant boy dies
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Homicide probe opened after damaged-heart-transplant boy dies

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 23 - Naples prosecutors have opened an investigation into culpable homicide after a two-year-old boy who had a damaged heart transplanted into him in December died at the city's Monaldi hospital on Saturday. The case has moved the entire nation. Last week a committee of doctors from all over Italy had decided that the boy, whose name was Domenico, should not have another transplant, even though a donor organ had become available, because his condition had deteriorated too m...

Meloni attends funeral of damaged-heart-transplant boy
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Meloni attends funeral of damaged-heart-transplant boy

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 4 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday attended the funeral at Nola near Naples of a two-year-old boy who died in a Naples hospital two months after receiving the transplant of a damaged heart in a case that has gripped Italy. "Domenico has become a son to all of us. Children are pieces of our hearts, and our hearts are broken by this tragedy," said the Bishop of Nola, Francesco Marino, during his homily at the funeral of little Domenico Caliendo. The bishop offered words ...