The investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in Novgorod Region have launched a criminal investigation into poor medical services provided by Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital to a child causing his disability as containing a crime under part 2 of article 118 of the RF Penal Code.

According to investigators, in late December 2012, Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital accepted an 8-year-old boy diagnosed with osteomyelitis of lower jaw at 6^th tooth, adenophlegmon of submaxillary space on the right side. Earlier the boy had had his tooth pulled out at children’s dental clinic and was accepted to Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital for drainage of suppurative focus. Later the boy got worse, doctors tried to perform an emergency operation during which the boy’s heart stopped causing organic brain lesion.

The fact that criminal investigation was launched after such a long time is due to the fact that the boy’s mother appealed to law enforcement bodies only 9 months later (in August 2013), after that there were necessary expert examinations assigned which took quite a long time due to their complexity. At the moment investigating operations are underway to find all the circumstances of the crime and to identify officials and doctors involved.

The situation has been covered by a show on a federal TV channel. The investigation of the case is controlled by the Central Office of the Russia’s Investigative Committee. On the order of the Investigative Committee Chairman his senior assistant has been sent to Novgorod Region to look at all the circumstances of the incident, to meet with the victim’s family and to hold a briefing with an investigating team to hear the first results of the investigation and planned investigating operations.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                       V.I. Markin