Domenico Caliendo's failed heart-transplant inquiry has reached two staff members at Bolzano hospital. The development does not assign responsibility, but it brings the investigation to the chain of steps between the heart's retrieval and the operation at Naples' Monaldi hospital.
ANSA reported that a coordinator and a social-health worker at Bolzano hospital will be heard by the Naples prosecutor's office in the coming days. Both are under investigation as a procedural step in the Nas inquiry into the child's death after the failed heart transplant performed at Monaldi on 23 December 2025. The agency said nine healthcare workers are now under investigation.
The significance lies in where their roles sit in the sequence. A team from Naples carried out the heart retrieval in Bolzano, according to ANSA. The agency reported that the organ was placed in a container considered outside the guidelines and topped up with synthetic ice supplied by the local hospital. That reported technical detail explains why investigators are examining the Bolzano stage. It does not establish that the container or ice caused the transplant to fail.
The inquiry now needs to establish the roles, procedures and handover steps without treating an entry on the investigation register as a finding of fault. The material supplied does not identify the alleged offences, the positions of the other seven healthcare workers, or responses from lawyers for the two Bolzano staff members. Prosecutors will have to assess the legal and technical relevance of the container, ice and transport chain. For now, the documented development is that the scrutiny has extended to that part of the procedure.
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- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-11
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