Lorenzo Bonicelli returns to Italy, transfer to Niguarda Hospital in Milan
Lorenzo Bonicelli was transferred today from the Essen University Poclinic to Niguarda Hospital in Milan. The complex operation–coordinated by federal physician Andrea Ferretti, who just yesterday returned to Germany also to follow closely, personally, the delicate boarding procedures–began around 8:00 a.m. with the takeoff of the air ambulance from Innsbruck airport and ended around 3:00 p.m. with the blue gymnast’s arrival at the neurosurgery department of ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano in Milan, with his family and fiancée always at his side. Bonicelli, who was injured on July 23 coming out on the rings during artistic gymnastics qualifications at the XXXII World University Summer Games in Germany’s Rhine-Ruhr Region, endured the transfer well and remained alert throughout the journey.
“The Gymnastics Federation of Italy, which, doppo the visit to Essen by President Andrea Facci at the end of the Universiade, had been taking charge of its athlete’s health since Monday, July 28, through prof. Ferretti, president of the FGI health commission, thanks all those who assisted Lorenzo from the very first moment, from the FederCusi, chaired by Antonio Dima, and his doctor, Dr. Filippo Ferrari, who had to manage the first very difficult stages after the injury, to neurosurgeon Dr. Laurèl Rauschenbach, who immediately subjected the athlete to surgical treatment, and his team, who assisted him with competence and loving care” the statement also reads.
“Now it will be Dr. Giuseppe Sechi, medical director of Niguarda, who will take care of Bonicelli, and to him, too, goes our gratitude for the sensitivity and willingness shown in’offering prompt hospitality to the 23-year-old from Abbadia Lariana. Also the ground and air ambulance flight attendants who provided Lorenzo with the highest level of means, expertise and professionalism were true angels. Now that he is home, in Italy, closer to Seveso CAT and coaches Paolo Quarto, Pamela Cauli, and Pietro Spreafico, although not yet in his Lecco, where he had technically grown up in the Ghislanzoni GAL gymnasium, Lorenzo will feel even more strongly the warmth of all those who followed him in his hospitalization with anxiety, participation and affection, starting with teammates Riccardo Villa, Nicolò Vannucchi and coach Roberto Germani who were with him in Germany. Welcome back Bonni!”, ends the note.
