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Di Battista’s partner and Gemelli doctors arrive in Havana

From ANSA · () Italian

Translated from Italian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Sahra Lahouasnia and two specialists from Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic arrived in Havana as Di Battista remained hospitalized in serious condition.
  • The doctors will assess him alongside Cuban medical staff, and his condition currently prevents transfer on a government medical flight.
  • Italian officials, including Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and Ambassador Simona De Martino, are monitoring the case.

Alessandro Di Battista’s partner, Sahra Lahouasnia, has arrived in Havana, joined by a medical team from Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic as the former Five Star Movement lawmaker remains seriously ill in a Cuban hospital.

I will do everything I can to come back soon.

— Alessandro Di BattistaDi Battista sent the message to Ilaria Loquenzi while hospitalized in Havana.

Two Gemelli doctors will work with the Cuban team at the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital and assess Di Battista’s condition. He was moved to Havana after initially being hospitalized in Santa Clara following severe head pain and a period in which he lost consciousness. Doctors carried out specialist examinations, including a CT scan, to establish his diagnosis and prognosis.

Di Battista, 48, responded to messages of support from his hospital room on the building’s 19th floor. “I will do everything I can to come back soon,” he wrote to communications specialist Ilaria Loquenzi. In a message to Naples pizzaiolo Gino Sorbillo, he replied, “I need them,” referring to the good-luck wishes he had received, and added, “I will come visit you soon.”

I need them.

— Alessandro Di BattistaHe responded to Gino Sorbillo’s good-luck messages, which included four-leaf clovers and hearts.

His condition currently does not allow him to be transferred on the government medical flight made available for the case. Italy’s government is following developments through Ambassador Simona De Martino, while Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte has been coordinating between Di Battista’s family and the Foreign Ministry.

I will come visit you soon.

— Alessandro Di BattistaHe added the promise in a message to Gino Sorbillo.

Tajani also spoke with Di Battista by telephone and described him as “combative in tone, not weakened in morale despite the complicated situation.” The Foreign Ministry said Tajani expressed solidarity and assured him that the government would do what was necessary, as it would for any Italian citizen.

Combative in tone, not weakened in morale despite the complicated situation.

— Antonio TajaniItaly’s foreign minister described Di Battista after speaking with him by telephone.
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Originally published by ANSA in Italian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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