Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a Cat scan at Italian hospital Italian radiologist, who says injured pet was ‘between life and death’, also operated on animal at Aosta facility.
She survived the ordeal, but the local health authority undertook an internal inquiry into the incident and referred the case to prosecutors in Aosta, who said Fanelli could face charges of wasting public money and depriving patients of essential services.
An Italian doctor has been placed under investigation after giving his cat a Cat scan at a hospital in Aosta before performing a life-saving operation on the feline.
Gianluca Fanelli took the animal, called Athena, to Umberto Parini hospital in the northern Italian region, where he is a manager of the radiology unit after she fell from a roof.
Athena, who plunged six floors from the roof of the building where the family live, was one of five stray cats Fanelli said he had “rescued from the street and saved from extreme conditions”.
