The Aktobe City Court has heard the case of medical professionals who failed to distinguish a man from a woman and caused the death of a patient with a disability.
According to Ratel.kz, the decision of the Aktobe City Court states that first-group disabled person Dyakov was registered under dispensary observation at City Polyclinic No. 2 in Aktobe with diagnoses of hypertensive disease, chronic ischaemic heart disease, and cerebral vascular damage.
It is reported that the patient regularly received treatment in the polyclinic's day hospital. For some reason, the doctors decided that Dyakov was a woman and, as an inspection established, "the employee incorrectly carried out the patient's identification, and the description of the life history corresponds to the female sex".
At the same time, the man was not examined by a cardiologist, he did not receive an echocardiogram, mandatory medications that prevent blood clots were not prescribed, nor were tablets to lower cholesterol levels. These facts were revealed by an inspection from the Department of the Committee for Medical and Pharmaceutical Control.
"The treatment was formal, just for show; there was no proper dynamic monitoring of the patient. As it turned out, the polyclinic did not carry out a full range of examinations for Dyakov in order to prevent complications, exacerbations of diseases, their prophylaxis, and the implementation of medical rehabilitation, 'which led to negative consequences and worsened his state of health, which collectively led to a fatal outcome'", stated in the decision of the Aktobe City Court.
Ultimately, the court recognised the doctors' guilt in the patient's death and ordered the polyclinic to pay material compensation for moral damages to Dyakov's family in the amount of 700,000 tenge.