Letizia Ciampi was found dead in a flat in Fuerteventura, Spain, after being discharged twice from hospital with breathing difficulties and chest pain
Tim Hanlon News Reporter and Laura Hill
09:17, 06 Jan 2026
Letizia Ciampi (L) with her friend, Patrizia Faraoni (R).(Image: Jam Press)
A holidaymaker has tragically passed away in a Spanish holiday flat after being discharged from hospital twice.
Letizia Ciampi started experiencing difficulty breathing and chest pain shortly after her flight landed on the morning of 31 December. Her companion took her to A&E, where she underwent an X-ray.
Doctors reportedly found her in good health and discharged her, suggesting that she was likely suffering from stress. They advised her to have further tests upon returning home and reassured her there was nothing urgent to worry about.
However, at the flat she was staying at in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, her symptoms did not improve and that afternoon, she returned to the hospital by ambulance, where she was discharged again after receiving IV fluids and medication.
She then sent her friend a final message, saying she didn’t feel up to the New Year’s Eve dinner they had planned and the next day, 1 January, her friend, who resides on Fuerteventura, tried to call her but received no answer. Worried, he attempted to reach the flat’s landlord, managing contact only the following day, reports the Mirror.
Letizia Ciampi was discharged from hospital twice before her sudden death
Firefighters had to force entry into the property, which had been locked from the inside. The 47 year old was found curled up on the bed, with some drops of blood on the sheet.
She was no longer breathing. Letizia, from Bagno a Ripoli near Florence, Italy, worked as a sales agent for a food company.
She was athletic, health-aware, a gym-goer, and enjoyed playing padel. She had also dabbled in politics, once standing for office in Florence under Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right People of Freedom party.
She had journeyed to Fuerteventura for a brief winter sun holiday and to visit a friend. “Never a warning sign, just a bit of flu in the days before leaving for the Canaries,” her heartbroken friend Patrizia Faraoni shared with Italian press.
“But if she went to the emergency room there twice, it clearly means she was really unwell.”
Spanish officials have arranged a post-mortem, set for today, to ascertain whether her death was a tragic mishap or a case of medical negligence.
Italian press have speculated that she might have suffered from a pulmonary embolism or pulmonary oedema that doctors failed to identify. Her mother told Italian media: “She was all I had, it was just the two of us, my beloved daughter. I don’t know how to go on.”
