The hospital was obliged to support the daughter of a deceased patient until the age of 23.
The Fourth Judicial Court of General Jurisdiction made a decision in the lawsuit of relatives of a patient who died after a cholecystectomy in the Central Regional Hospital of the Olkhov Municipal District of the Volgograd Region.
During the intervention, the surgeon did not perform intraoperative bleeding with sufficient care. Because of this massive bleeding started from the cystic artery. The patient developed long-term hypertension and multiple organ failure, and against the background of chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic necrosis and necrotic changes in the liver tissue in the suture area appeared. This caused repeated bleeding.
The patient was then transferred to a higher level medical facility in extremely serious condition, but could not be saved. As a result, the man died of hemorrhagic shock.
The surgeon who operated was found guilty of causing death by negligence. In addition, the widow and two daughters of the deceased demanded through the court to collect from the medical institution compensation for moral damage in the amount of 25 million rubles in favor of each claimant.
The court established a direct causal link between the technical defect in the provision of medical care during the surgery and the patient's death, but did not agree with the amount of compensation required. The hospital was ordered to pay the widow and two daughters one million rubles each.
In addition, every month the hospital will transfer half of the regional subsistence level to the minor daughter of the deceased. The payments are determined until the age of 18, and if she continues her studies then until she turns 23.
In the past, a surgeon from Nizhny Tagil appealed the court's decision requiring him to provide for the child of a deceased patient.