Overview

• After a new medical review, the local health authority found Ada meets the requirements set by the Cappato ruling and later Constitutional Court decisions.
• The hospital ethics committee issued a favorable opinion, moving the case into the final phase to select the drug and the method for self-administration.
• An initial denial led Ada’s lawyers to file an urgent appeal, and a Tribunal of Naples agreement required the authority to complete the mandated verifications.
• Ada, 44, has rapidly progressing ALS, can no longer speak, communicates via an eye-pointer, and relies on family caregivers for feeding, medication, and daily survival.
• Her legal defense is coordinated by Filomena Gallo of the Associazione Luca Coscioni with Angioletto Calandrini, Francesca Re, Alessia Cicatelli, and Rocco Berardo, after she publicly revealed her identity following an earlier anonymous plea.