Piotr Gutul, chairman of the national public association “Consumer Protection”, accuses doctors of negligence and calls on the people of good faith to help him collect the money needed for receiving treatment abroad.

In a news conference at IPN, Piotr Gutul related that at the start of November he felt sick. Doctors of the Emergency Medicine Institute established that he suffered a stroke, but the doctor on guard at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery didn’t confirm the diagnosis and recommended him to go to the family doctor. He followed the recommendation. The family doctor of the Ministry of the Interior’s Policlinic made him have new blood tests and refused to make a referral to the hospital of the Ministry of the Interior based on the analyses he had one day earlier.

Meanwhile, his state of health worsened and on November 9 he was taken by an ambulance to the hospital of the Ministry of the Interior. Piotr Gutul said the hospital’s vice director instructed the doctor on guard not to hospitalize him as the stroke hadn’t been confirmed. On November 21, Piotr Gutul was admitted to the Emergency Medicine Institute, where it was established again that he suffered a stroke. But the computed tomography scan didn’t confirm the diagnosis.

Piotr Gutul stated the doctors determined that his health problems, including the partial paralysis, are consequences of a brain trauma that he suffered in 2008. The treatment abroad that he cannot receive at home owing to the negligence and carelessness of doctors costs over €700,000.

Piotr Gutul requested prosecutors to take legal action against the family doctor and the vice director of hospital of the Ministry of the Interior.