Krasnoturyinsky city hospital

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2021: Payment of 300 thousand rubles of compensation to a woman in labor for electric shock from medical equipment

On April 21, 2021, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court announced that it had recovered 300 thousand rubles of moral compensation from the Krasnoturyinsky city hospital in favor of the mother of a newborn child who was electrocuted in the city maternity hospital.

According to the press service of the court, in the spring of 2020, when Ekaterina L. (surname is not called) was in the Krasnoturyinsky maternity hospital, her newborn child needed phototherapy. At the time of treatment, only one of the two necessary irradiating lamps was free. The second was promised after discharge by a neighbor on the ward. When the device was released, Catherine decided to move it herself to the crib of the child and turn on the equipment. She simultaneously touched both working lamps, because of which she received an electric shock. The woman fell and hit her back, suffered burns, and also had problems with her heart rate.

A woman in labor in the Sverdlovsk region sued 300 thousand rubles from the hospital for electric shock from medical equipment

She was urgently placed in the intensive care ward, and then in the cardiology ward. The young mother was forced to be separate from her child, because of which the newborn was transferred to artificial feeding.

Ekaterina L. appealed to the Severouralsk City Court with a civil lawsuit against the Krasnoturyinsky Maternity Hospital, HAUZ SO Krasnoturyinsky City Hospital and the Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region. She asked jointly to recover compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 1 million rubles from the defendants, the press service of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court reports.

The hospital appealed the decision in the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, but the court dismissed the complaint.

Phototherapy lamps are a medical product, and only specially trained medical personnel are allowed to work with them. At the same time, hospital employees are forbidden to leave patients unattended during procedures using electromedical equipment. However, the lamps were in the ward in free access for the patient, the regional court concluded.[1]

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