On December 27, 2013 the patient was transferred to the TB Treatment and
Rehabilitation Centre N19 of the Penitentiary department for anti-TB treatment. On
December 31, 2013 at 5.30 AM the patient reported an abdominal pain and asked
for a painkiller. S/he did not complain about nausea. According to a medical record
the abdomen was of medium rigidness; there was a pain in the right flank and in the
area of the waist. The patient did not report a pain on the surface of the thigh. The
patient vomited. By 2 pm the pain started to decline. The patient was administered an
injection of Ketz, No Spa and Platilin. In about an hour the patient asked for a sleeping
pill as he could not fall asleep because of dull pain. S/he was administered an injection.
The stool was liquid.
According to the medical records, on January 2, 2014 at1:20 PM a call was registered
from Cell B-406. A doctor responding to the call found the convict prone in bed in
vomit (with a consistency of coffee-grounds) and pronounced biological death with
preliminary diagnosis of aspiration with vomited substance, asphyxia.
According to a report N000006514 prepared by the National Forensics Bureau, the
death was induced by purulent diffusive peritonitis resulted from the dissemination
of miliary tuberculosis to the digestive tract and perforation of the inner wall of the
small intestine. The following injures were found on the body of the deceased: an
extravasation on the front surface of the right shoulder (the lower third) and a scar in
the area of the same shoulder and the elbow (the back surface) inflicted by a blunt
object in the interval of one to three days prior to death. These injuries, when observed
on an alive individual, are qualified as light and are not related to the cause of death.
The forensic report states that the cause of death was the dissemination of lung
miliary tuberculosis in the esophagus, stomach, intestines, lymph nodes, omentum,
also, by disintegration of tubercular structures in the esophagus, stomach and small
intestines, defects, gastric and esophageal varices, perforation of the inner wall of
the small intestine and development of diffusive purulent peritonitis. A post mortem
examination also revealed that the deceased suffered from the accumulation of
greyish-yellowish-greenish liquid up to 2000 ml in the abdomen and a large quantity
of fur of the same colour, brain and soft coat edema, focal arachnoiditis, lipomatosis
of epi-myocardium, chronic cholangitis, chronic aggressive hepatitis, HIV/AIDS. The
blood of the deceased contained Analgin and Diazepam.
Importantly, the information provided by the Medical Department of the Ministry
of Corrections did not contain any note by a surgeon which would recommend an
operation on the patient. Nor did the documents contain any records on drugs and
medication requested by and allocated to the deceased. Therefore, there is evidence
that medical service provided to D.G. was of poor quality and that the assistance was
delayed and inadequate.
T.C.
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