LONG ISLAND FIREFIGHTER WITH LIFE-THREATENING, FLESH-EATING BACTERIA TO BE RELEASED FROM NUMC

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2012

PRESS CONTACT:
Shelley Lotenberg
shelley@numc.edu
516-572-6055

MEDIA ADVISORY

LONG ISLAND FIREFIGHTER WITH LIFE-THREATENING,
FLESH-EATING BACTERIA TO BE RELEASED FROM NUMC

MEDICAL TEAM TO REPORT PATIENT’S CONDITION
TODAY AT PRESS CONFERENCE AT NUMC

EAST MEADOW, NY – Louis Riina, MD, associate director of the burn center at the Nassau University Medical Center will join with clinical staff from NUMC, after saving the life of a local volunteer firefighter suffering from ”Necrotizing Fasciitis,” a rare, life-threatening, flesh-eating bacteria, in a press conference on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12 pm at Nassau University Medical Center, 2201 Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, NY.  Dr. Riina and the medical team will issue a full report on Ralph Lettieri’s condition before his discharge today, after a two month stay at NUMC. The patient will be speaking out after the rare and dangerous bacteria began eating away at him in mid-July.

 *** Interviews available with Long Island volunteer firefighter who survived flesh-eating bacterial infection ***

WHERE:    Nassau University Medical Center/Burn Center – 6TH Floor
                  2201 Hempstead Turnpike
                  East Meadow, NY

WHEN:      Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM

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