SURGEON OF "ARMENIA" MEDICAL CENTER SENTENCED TO 4-YEAR IMPRISONMENT
Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The Court of First Instance of the
communities of Ajapniak and Davitashen, Yerevan, sentenced on March
14 Armen Sargsian, the surgeon of the 2nd surgical department of the
"Armenia" medical center to 4-year imprisonment. By this the court
considered reasoned the accusations presented towards him of causing
treated patient Nune Baghdasarian’s (born in 1984) death in the
consequence of improperly implementing his obligations, fulfilling
them carelessly and unconscientiously.
N.Baghdasarian was taken to the hospital on October 19, 2005, with
the diagnosis "acute stomach, acute destructive appendicitis, local
peritonitis."
A.Sargsian operated on her on the same day, the patient was moved to
the therapy department and inspite of the serum production from the
drainage-tube, the drainage-tube was operated. Besides, the patient was
discharged from the hospital with 37.2 degree temperature. No control
or examination was carried out before October 26, the patient’s next
visit to the hospital, though the pathology continued in the stomach
cavity and post-operational peritonitis developed. As a result
the serum peritonitis developed and turned into spreading fibroma
mattery peritonitis. The doctor did not make correct diagnosis on
October 26 and, in conditions of 38.5 temperature, pains in the
region of stomach and existence of swelling, the patient was again
sent home. N.Baghdasarian was re-operated after being examined by
another specialist already on October 27, but in the consequence
of development of difficulties incompatible with life, it was not
managed to save her life, and N.Baghdasarian died on October 28.