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Accusations against Medical Personnel of Iashvili Medical Clinic

April 29, 2015
 
Natia Gogolashvili

On March 26, 2014 Gela Didebashvili and Nino Tarimanashvili took their three-months-old infant from Temka medical clinic to Iashvili Pediatric Clinic because it was necessary to append him to the breathing apparatus. The baby has been in the Iashvili medical clinic for one year and one month. The parents claim due to negligence of the doctors the health of their baby worsened. Currently, the child has disabled status.

“In Temka clinic reanimatologists could not continue his treatment. We spent three months there and after situation worsened it was necessary to append the child to the breathing apparatus that is available only in Iashvili clinic. We took the baby to the Iashvili clinic by emergency car. Doctors at Temka Clinic insisted the baby had innate health problems but medical conclusions from Germany do not confirm their allegation. The doctors said the child will live only for five months,” father of the baby Gela Didebashvili said.

The parents blame doctor Maya Peikrishvili, head of reanimatology unit Gia Bibilashvili and deputy director of the Iashvili medical clinic Vaniko Chkhaidze in the worsened health conditions of their child.

The parents said the head of the reanimatology unit at the Iashvili clinic Gia Bibilashvili did not consider it was necessary to append the child to the breathing apparatus. They did it only three days later after the health conditions of the child got particularly grave.

“Gia Bibilashvili showed me a cardiogram and said the baby did not need the apparatus; he said he will observe his health conditions but apparently he did not take adequate measures. We were not allowed to stay in the reanimation unit for a long time. Doctor Peikrishvili told us she did not know what happened in Temka clinic. She did not even listen to us and was waiting for health attack. Unfortunately, the attack had extremely bad impact on the child because doctors could not append him to the breathing apparatus; his larynx was narrowed though doctors could not detect it in any clinics. When doctors tried to append him to the apparatus, his heart stopped beating and child was immediately operated on in the chamber; as a result his lung and larynx was damaged. Later they gave food to him that caused peritonitis, oxygen leaked under the skin and the baby swelled,” Gela Didebashvili said.

“The baby was three months when we brought him to the clinic. When doctors appended him to the apparatus, they damaged his larynx and lung. Gia Bibilashvili said it was not their fault. Afterwards the child recovered and contacted us though the lung was damaged. They gave food to him with probe but the child swelled. I quarreled with the doctor; they very cynical to me and threatened with patrol police. Afterwards they installed drainage and child slowly recovered but because of lack of oxygen he got hygroma, hydrocephaly (pathology when level of brain liquid is increased in the skull) and hematoma. After a week the baby’s conditions were extremely worsened; a hole appeared in his second lung too. When we asked the doctor about the reasons, he said the stoma was stuck,” Nino Tarimanashvili, the mother, said.

Gela Didebashvlili applied to Human Rights Center for legal assistance.
“According to the parents, their son was improperly treated in Iashvili Clinic that extremely aggravated the child’s health conditions. Today, he is under palliative medical care in the reanimation unit. We addressed to the Minister of Healthcare Davit Sergeenko and requested creation of special commission to study the facts the parents are speaking about; if the commission estimates violations by the doctors, we requested the Minister to impose adequate sanctions on them. Nevertheless, the Ministry has not responded to our April 1 petition yet,” deputy executive director of Human Rights Center Tamar Avaliani said.

The parents request media sources to get interested in the topic and estimate the truth. They also petition to the Minister of Healthcare Davit Sergeenko to personally control the medical treatment of the child. 
 
Humanrights.ge contacted deputy director of the Tbilisi Iashvili Pediatric Clinic Vaniko Chkhaidze who said that based on Human Rights Center’s petition, the Ministry of Healthcare got interested in the case of little child. According to Chkhaidze, the commission has already entered the clinic, which will study the details of the implemented medical treatment and by the end of next week the commission will deliver the conclusion based on their findings. 

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