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“Someone helps me to get well and the appeal that I make to the Minister of Health Schillaci and the Minister for the Disabled Locatelli is that the state does not leave me alone in this odyssey because my life is destroyed”: Fabrizio Gentili speaks to ANSA , 47 years old, married and father of two daughters, teacher of physics and mathematics at the “Galilei” scientific high school in Macerata. “My ordeal of physical and mental pain – says the man from Serrapetrona, but who has lived in Tolentino (Macerata) since the earthquake 7 years ago – begins in July 2022, when I took an antibiotic from the fluoroquinolone family after a urinary tract infection” ” “Medicine prescribed to me by my family doctor on the recommendation of the urologist”, but for which there is an AIFA warning in 2019, due to “side effects, including serious and disabling ones, on the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system”.
Video Unable to move due to pain after antibiotics, the teacher appeals to Schillaci and Locatelli
Due to the severity of such reactions in previously healthy subjects, AIFA had recommended maximum caution when prescribing. “I, who was a super athlete, was in a wheelchair a few weeks after taking it,” says the teacher. “The side effects of the antibiotic all made themselves felt with great violence on the tendons of my body,” leaving me unable to stand upright or support my arms, so much so that my wife was forced to feed me. “I am starting a long trek through the hospitals of the Marche and also outside the region, but no one has ever certified to me that my state of health is exclusively linked to the undesirable effects of the antibiotic,” and according to Gentili, this “actually prevents me.” Have access to some form of health care.”
“After 17 months of illness and therefore a significantly reduced salary,” he adds, “from now on I also have to deal with a complicated economic situation.” “I am turning to the ministers so that they can help me find a way which allows me to recover. I know that there are experimental treatments, but they are very expensive, so I hope the state won’t let me down,” the teacher says again. At the moment, Gentili has not taken any legal action and hopes that the National Health Service and therefore the institutions will take charge of his story: “In my state, I found out that in Italy there is an army of several thousand people in which we do not forget “Our torture,” concludes the professor.
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