Amur Regional Children's Clinical Hospital

History

2022: Payment of 7 million rubles for infecting children with hepatitis

The Amur Regional Children's Clinical Hospital will pay a total of more than 7 million rubles due to the infection of children with hepatitis C in this institution. The corresponding decision on February 18, 2022 was made by a court in Blagoveshchensk.

In December 2018, it was reported that more than ten children who were in the oncology and hematology department were infected with hepatitis C in the Amur Regional Children's Hospital. Later it turned out that the number of infected more than 100 people, they were infected for several years.

Amur Regional Children's Clinical Hospital will pay millions to children infected with hepatitis

Parents of the affected children together appealed to Rospotrebnadzor with a request to check the hospital and began to compile lists of infected people. The TFR Directorate for the region opened a criminal case on the violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules (part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Parents of the sick sought compensation through the courts.

The impossibility of full treatment until this age, while the viral load on the daughter's liver progresses, caused and causes not only moral, but also physical suffering, since it is unbearable to observe the torment of the child daily and not be able to help him, the parents noted in their complaint.

In October 2020, the UK completed the investigation of the criminal case, the charge under Part 1 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code ("Negligence") was brought against the deputy head physician for medical work Asa Serga and the head of the departments of epidemiology and hematology Galina Platova and Irina Baturskaya. According to investigators, as a result of their negligence, the hospital allowed the use of non-sterile medical gloves when processing catheters intended for blood transfusion, plugs for them, as well as non-sterile medical instruments.

In accordance with the court order, the hospital will pay from 700 thousand to 800 thousand rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage to the parents of 10 children infected with hepatitis C.^[1]

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