The Dr. Ney Arias Lora Traumatological University Teaching Hospital filed an appeal for review before the Constitutional Court regarding Sentence SCJ-TS-24-0126 issued by the Supreme Court of Justice. The ruling requires the Ministry of Hacienda to pay on behalf of the hospital RD$10 million after losing a lawsuit for a case that occurred in 2016, in which a young man lost a leg, as a result of a bacteria he would have contracted in the hospital.
The sentence was handed down by the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. The hospital and the medical association seek for the ruling to be reviewed “because the defendant was not allowed to present expert evidence, nor the review of management protocols, nor the review of the guidelines.”
“We trust that the honorable judges of the Constitutional Court will be guarantors of fundamental rights and a fair and...
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