Omitted the diagnosis of the child, the health company will pay 0.5 mln – Friuli V. G.

(ANSA) – PORDENONE, JULY 2 – It stands at nearly half a million
euro the sum that the Auls 4 Eastern Veneto and the primary then
of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Portogruaro (Venice) will have to
pay for medical liability resulting from missed diagnosis
of genetic malformation (Down syndrome) of a baby's
young woman He establishes a sentence of the Court of
Pordenone.
The parents' battle began in 2012. "At the end of
Civil lawsuit promoted – explains the law firm of the woman – is
has emerged that the health professional has not submitted the woman to the exams of
screening and prenatal diagnosis, and he has not tried to have
provided the patient with adequate and comprehensive information on
The Court confirmed the claim for compensation of the
damage for omission of information and medical error and liquidated the
Unwanted property damage at the birth of the child caused
of the medical error, constituted by the economic cost more
necessary for the maintenance of a child not affected by
this malformation.