Cesenatico, 24-year-old died and the company continued to pay his salary after the INPS stop to sickness benefits

CESENA – Steven Babbi, from Cesenatico, who has been fighting against Ewing’s sarcoma for 13 years, a very aggressive tumor form, has died at the age of 24. The news was given by the Siropack company, for which he worked. His case became known in 2017 when, after exceeding the 180 days of absence from work required by law, he was suspended from sickness allowance by INPS. So it was that his own company, active in the packaging sector, intervened, continuing to pay his salary. And for that gesture the owners of the company Barbara Burioli and Rocco De Lucia, were appointed by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.”We will fight with even greater determination to keep his testimony alive and give voice to the request to exclude all cancer patients from the 180 day paid annual sickness limit, to restore to each worker that dignity that Steven has shown to the end, and to to ensure that our country allocates more funds to research so that our patients can have a greater life expectancy, “the company now writes on Facebook.
The young man’s funeral will be on Monday at 2.30 pm in the ‘Bagnarola’ church of Cesenatico. “Steven – the company writes – has loved life to the last moment, and we have not been able to help loving him since the first day he set foot in our company. In these years we have shared happy and difficult moments, falls and ascents, and at the end of this journey the legacy that Steven leaves us is something far greater than the profession that we have taught him. “” His contagious smile, His innate strength in throwing the heart beyond the obstacle – continues the company’s message -, his ability to empathize and help others, never complaining even in the last moments of life have ignited a flame in each of us who will not go out even in the face of this tremendous loss. “