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A Citizen Demands Gori Hospital to Return the Reimbursement for His Treatment

February 27, 2009


 Jemal Tsiklauri
After being treated in Gori hospital Jemal Tsiklauri considers that medical personnel breached his rights. Tsiklauri claimed that several days after his treatment in the hospital he needed urgent operation.

60-year-old Jemal Tsiklauri applied to the hospital because of acute pains in the lower part of his abdomen. Doctors concluded that he had acute appendicitis and place in hospital. The patient was offered to be operated on and he agreed. Tsiklauri was treated at hospital for 5 days; though as he claimed the treatment did not improve his health conditions except lowering the temperature.

“Five days later I was told to continue treatment at home and I paid 583 GEL for the treatment in the hospital. I did not agree to leave the hospital because my health conditions had not improved since the operation. Doctors tried to persuade me that pains would finish after taking the prescribed medicines and would operate me in 3-4 months. Three days later I visited the hospital again but doctors refused to operate me on. On December 19 terrible pains tortured me and I applied to another clinic where I was urgently operated on; I hardly escaped death,” said Jemal Tsiklauri.

Tsiklauri thinks that he was inhumanly treated in hospital; he was compelled to pay for the treatment and operation that had no results; besides that he had to pay money in another hospital too. “You know life is difficult now. I paid 800 GEL for the treatment in the hospital and medicines. I had to pay for the treatment in clinic too; so, since I was not properly treated in the hospital I demand the administration to return 583 GEL that I paid officially,” said Jemal Tsiklauri.

Tsiklauri stated that he had already requested Nukri Jokhadze, director of the hospital, to return the reimbursement of the treatment but he refused.

“Complaints of Tsiklauri are groundless. When he applied to us he could not be operated in; it was dangerous to his life. It was our treatment that helped him to survive; what else we could do?” said Nukri Jokhadze.

Tea Tedliashvili

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