Five doctors will appeared before court on charges of malpractice that led to the death of a girl. The Dubasari Prosecutor’s Office sent the case to court. If they are found guilty, the doctors will serve up to three years in jail and will be barred from holding particular posts or performing particular activities for a period of two to five years, IPN reports.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the five include a family doctor from Parata village of Dubasari district, a doctor of the Dubasari Emergency Medical Assistance Substation, an anesthesiologist–reanimatologist of the Criuleni District Hospital and the heads of the Infectious Illnesses Section and Intensive Care Section of the Criuleni District Hospital.
The prosecutors established that a four-year-old girl died in the summer of 2014 owing to the negligence of the family doctor and later of the other doctors, who didn’t obey the rules of providing medical assistance. On July 31, the girl’s mother took the child to the hospital because she had fever and pain. The doctors examined the child superficially and didn’t hospitalize her. In two days, after the girl was ultimately hospitalized, the doctors prescribed incorrect treatment for her. The child died in the hospital on August 2.
The prosecutors ordered a medical-legal examination and this confirmed that the doctors were to blame. The child died after catching rotavirus that caused acute gastroenteritis and dehydration and later meningitis, myocarditis, interstitial pneumonitis and microfocal hepatitis. The child received incorrect treatment in the hospital and this fact was confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
