Doctors of Chita did not recognize the child's illness, as a result, his limbs were amputated did not recognize a serious illness and forged the signature of the patient's mother to refuse hospitalization. As a result of the doctors' negligence, the child's limbs were amputated. The Snob magazine writes about the incident.
The boy's mother, Tatiana, said that her son had a fever in early January 2020. The woman called an ambulance, but the doctors did not notice the blue limbs of the child and advised to rub the patient with water at room temperature. The family called an ambulance again, and only the third time, when the boy turned purple, he was hospitalized in the regional hospital. He spent about 20 days in intensive care.
Doctors diagnosed “extensive necrosis of the soft tissues of the upper and lower extremities with lesions of the fingers and toes”, “circulatory disorders in both feet” and “meningococcal infection”, which leads to thrombosis. Children are vaccinated against meningococcal infection at two years old, and the patient at the time of the disease was one year and four months old.
After that, the boy developed dry gangrene, the doctors suggested amputation of the limbs, but the patient's mother decided to fly to Moscow for more qualified medical help. In the capital, doctors continued to monitor the patient, but as a result, they had to partially amputate the fingers, feet and a third of the lower leg.
A year later, the boy began to walk with the help of prostheses, and a charitable foundation helped to buy them. Tatyana is collecting money for new prostheses for a child on the social network Instagram.
After the incident, the Russian woman wrote complaints about doctors to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office of Russia. It turned out that doctors had twice forged the woman's signature to refuse hospitalization of the child. This was confirmed by a polygraph and graphological examination. The Russian woman intends to sue the doctors in compensation for eight million rubles.
Earlier it was reported that in Moscow, a 13-year-old teenager was in intensive care after an injection of doctors in a private clinic. The boy's parents went to a medical facility after the child had an eye pain. Doctors gave the patient an injection, after which he became ill. The boy was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Morozov Children's Hospital.