The boy was blinded due to the lack of an ophthalmologist at children’s hospital in Kamchatka
Moscow. 8 Nov. INTERFAX.RU — a Little boy went blind in the Kamchatka regional children’s hospital due to the fact that its officials are not equipped with staff ophthalmologists. In this regard, investigators opened a criminal case under article “negligence”, reported “Interfax” on Tuesday the senior assistant Director of SU CU in Kamchatskiy Krai Elena Matafonov.
According to Matafonova, in the period from September 2012 to February 2013 in children’s hospital was not qualified ophthalmologists, and a boy born in 2012 in time is not diagnosed eye disease. The disease led to blindness.
“Officials of the Kamchatka regional children’s hospital responsible for providing medical care to the population. Due to the unfair and negligent relation to service, they failed to take adequate measures to appropriate execution of its responsibilities to organise sufficient staffing levels of the medical staff,” — said Matafonov.
The representative of the RCDS added that the investigators have to establish all the circumstances of the incident and establish the circle of persons involved in the Commission of a crime.