Overview

• ESTAR’s market survey found a supplier of an eye-pointing communicator capable of activating infusion pumps, with technical and legal conformity checks still in progress.
• The court affirmed the patient’s right to therapeutic self-determination and set a peremptory 15-day deadline due to her clinical condition and intolerable suffering.
• ASL Toscana Nord Ovest signaled readiness to provide the equipment and to make the necessary drugs and devices available to the attending physician.
• Prior opinions from the Health Ministry, ISS and the Higher Health Council had reported no available devices for self-administration before this option was identified.
• The State Legal Office told the court that operational responsibility lies with the regional health service, a stance that contrasts with the government’s challenge to a Tuscan regional law on competence.