"Not proven by the facts of death": the Central District Hospital tried to cancel compensation for a patient's death

      As those who attended the meeting held on Thursday, October 23, said, we "were in shock" and "experienced the deepest revulsion" when "the hospital stated that there is no evidence in the case of infliction of moral damage on Valentina Plastinina:

      'There are many jokes and anecdotes about "medical cynicism," but this is not cynicism — it is the highest order of evil: godless shamelessness and hypocrisy voiced by the mouths of medical professionals who believe that the moral suffering of a mother who lost, due to the hospital's fault, her 36-year-old son, and three months later her husband, whose heart broke from grief on his 60th birthday, "is not proven by the fact of death"... We want these words, spoken on behalf of the hospital, to be heard and judged by all mothers who once lost their children and experienced incomparable grief. And by those for whom a child's life is the meaning of happiness and existence.'

      Besides the "unproven fact of maternal grief," a representative of the Verkhoshizhemskaya hospital claimed that Valentina Viktorovna did not deserve compensation, since she did not live with her son's family, to whom "highly qualified and high-tech care was provided."

      This care, as Valentina Plastinina told the court, consisted of the neurologist who was treating Serezha, Tatyana Trushkova, diagnosing the young man dying of a stroke with "positional vertigo" and sending him home. And when the patient's limbs began to seize and his speech disappeared, she alternately diagnosed food poisoning, then osteochondrosis, then epilepsy.

      "When Sergey got really bad, and the medical staff were running into the ward to see a man dying, we were almost on our knees begging Trushkova to call the air ambulance. She screamed for us to leave, not to disturb her rest, and locked the on-call room door from the inside. When my daughter-in-law managed to get through herself and the helicopter arrived, the doctors immediately said: 'Stroke. We're afraid — we won't make it in time.'"

      Recall that on February 5, 2023, Sergey Plastinin, with a severe headache, was brought to the hospital by ambulance, but the next morning was discharged home by neurologist Tatyana Trushkova with the diagnosis "positional vertigo" and the recommendation "glycine under the tongue." No examination was performed. On February 6 Sergey was again brought to the Central District Hospital, and the air ambulance doctors, arriving shortly before midnight, delivered a grim diagnosis. The autopsy confirmed that death occurred from "progressive cerebral edema," and that "the absence of the correct diagnosis and the loss of time led to irreversible consequences."

      Today the pain of Sergey's relatives has subsided, and it seems that his daughter — "his little princess" — suffers the most. Today the girl, who was six "when dad got sick," often asks her mother "to go to the cemetery and dig up the grave, because dad might still be alive."

      A former representative of the prosecutor's office in the trial called for an increase in the amount of compensation for moral damage. The Regional Court agreed, ordering the hospital to pay Sergey's mother 1.2 million rubles.