An elderly patient has taken legal action against a Moscow clinic after going in for eye surgery, only for the doctor to operate on the wrong eye, but has received little compensation or comfort.
…The eye clinic insists it did nothing wrong.
There s a strict system of checks before the operation. She had problems with both her eyes so the surgeon simply started with the right one and wanted to operate on her left the day after, said Dmitry Zhernov, spokesman for the eye microsurgery complex.
The doctor who performed the operation continues to work at the center.
Nina and her daughter took the medical center to court, demanding $16,000 in compensation. The clinic was ordered to pay just $2,000.
Russia has no insurance system against medical malpractice, and critics say punishing those responsible is a struggle.
Under our law, the judge decides on the compensation according to the defendant s ability to pay. And our state medical institutions don t have money for such payments in their budget, explained Dmitry Aivazyan from the League for Protection of Patients Rights.
There are no official figures for the scale of medical negligence in the country, but the group says 50,000 Russians die every…
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Patient blinded after surgery on the wrong eye
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