Verdict in hospital death case upheld
By Jane Chen |
April 29, 2010, Thursday
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A BEIJING court has upheld a lower court's verdict which ordered a hospital in the capital to pay 750,000 yuan (US$109,877) in compensation to the family of a medical researcher who died after surgery at the hospital.
The Beijing Higher People's Court rejected appeals from both the No. 1 Hospital of Peking University and the victim's family against the first verdict handed out by the Beijing Intermediate People's Court last July, Legal Evening News reported yesterday.
Xiong Zhuowei, 49, a senior researcher with the hospital, died in January 2006, a week after undergoing orthopedic surgery at the hospital. The hospital explained the death was a result of pulmonary embolism, a lung clot that can occur after surgery.
But her husband, Wang Jianguo, a professor with Peking University's management school, rejected the explanation, accusing the hospital of illegally using unlicensed doctors whose inexperience allegedly caused the death.
Wang filed a lawsuit with the intermediate court in July 2007 seeking a compensation of 5.42 million yuan. He also demanded punishment for the hospital's illegal practice of using intern doctors for operations.
The court announced the first verdict last July, ordering the hospital to take full responsibility for the medical accident and pay 750,000 yuan as compensation to Wang and Xiong's mother.
The Beijing Higher People's Court rejected appeals from both the No. 1 Hospital of Peking University and the victim's family against the first verdict handed out by the Beijing Intermediate People's Court last July, Legal Evening News reported yesterday.
Xiong Zhuowei, 49, a senior researcher with the hospital, died in January 2006, a week after undergoing orthopedic surgery at the hospital. The hospital explained the death was a result of pulmonary embolism, a lung clot that can occur after surgery.
But her husband, Wang Jianguo, a professor with Peking University's management school, rejected the explanation, accusing the hospital of illegally using unlicensed doctors whose inexperience allegedly caused the death.
Wang filed a lawsuit with the intermediate court in July 2007 seeking a compensation of 5.42 million yuan. He also demanded punishment for the hospital's illegal practice of using intern doctors for operations.
The court announced the first verdict last July, ordering the hospital to take full responsibility for the medical accident and pay 750,000 yuan as compensation to Wang and Xiong's mother.
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