Vittorio Feltri speaks on Libero today about the Andrea Purgatori case. And he also tells an anecdote about him. Feltri announced in March 2022 that he had cancer. He later resigned from the Milan City Council for health reasons. In the case of the investigative journalist who died on July 19 last year, however, the diagnoses are now colliding: And there are those who speak of an infection as the cause of death. The experts responsible for the autopsy have 60 days to provide an answer. Feltri says he experienced a “quite similar” situation to Purgatori’s. Then the story begins. This starts with a CT scan and the reaction of a breast tumor. The doctors advise him to have it removed surgically, even if the dimensions are only a few millimeters.
radiation therapy and pain
At this point, Feltri goes under the knife. The operation takes half an hour and, as he says himself, he goes to work at Libero that day. Then an oncologist recommended radiation therapy for him as well, as happened to Purgatori. “Three days later I was so fit that I couldn’t even get up for a bet. A couple of times I fell down like a salami. I was like dogs. As for the radiation therapy, they completely destroyed me. I fainted twice. At that point I was admitted to the hospital. Diagnosis: emplema,” recalls Feltri. Which he then sums up: “I had a left lung full of pus.” Feltri had suffered occlusion of a pulmonary artery. This had led to an accumulation of solid material in the organ. At this point, says Feltri, Professor Andrea Gori intervenes. He is a Doctor of Infectious Diseases and Director of Infectious Diseases at the Milan Polytechnic. As well as brother of the mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori.
resignation
Feltri says that Gori “saved his skin”. He can leave the hospital within a few weeks. And he recovered: “I hope so, because I still have a slight pain in my left side.” Then the connection with the Purgatori case: “If it is true that his health has deteriorated after the therapies, especially the radiological ones, it was probably the pneumonia that killed him, in fact it seems that he had no brain metastases.” In short, I would like to say that sometimes the treatments given directly are worse than the disease, if there is one.” Finally, the conclusion with the doctors that “they’re like journalists, some don’t understand a whistle”.
Cover photo by: Dagospia
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