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'IF YOU HAD DONE SOMETHING, I WOULDN'T HAVE GONE TO COURT': FATHER OF DECEASED 2-YEAR-OLD TO DOCTORS
06.05.2014 17:29 epress.am
In the opinion of Arabkir Joint Medical Center doctors Lilit Vardanyan
and Zarine Ayvzyan, accused in the death of 2-year-old Lia Misakyan,
they are accused only because they are young doctors. "But when young
journalists write about us, their written words are not questioned,"
said Ayvazyan today at the Court of General Jurisdiction of Arabkir
and Kanaker-Zeytun Administrative Districts of Yerevan.
Recall, according to the case materials, Lia Minasyan's parents took
their daughter to the Arabkir Joint Medical Center on Dec. 31, 2013,
at around 8 pm, but on Jan. 2, 2014, the child died, according to
the expert, from pneumonia.
Expert Gagik Harutyunyan continued to be questioned in court today.
Ayvazyan's attorney, Yerem Sargsyan, tried to prove that the conclusion
was wrong, and his client gave the correct diagnosis: the child did
not have symptoms of pneumonia. Sargsyan, in particular, said the
child had hyperventilation of 30-32; meanwhile, to be considered a
symptom of pneumonia, there must be more than 40 breaths.
The expert said it's not only breathing that indicates the existence
of pneumonia.
"The child refused to eat; for 3 days, her temperature did not drop.
She had [...]; her lips were blue; [she was] vomiting," said the
expert.
Sargsyan implied that the expert is unreliable. He recalled that the
examination carried out by Harutyunyan in another case of death (of
Mariam Arshakyan) was later rejected. The attorney also said that
the expert failed to conduct a bacteriological examination; thus,
he cannot confidently assert that the liquid from the child's throat
was pus. Since Yerem Sargsyan had a lot of questions, presiding Judge
Avetisyan urged the witness to respond only to questions directly
related to the conclusion.
The child's father, Georgy Miskayan, intervened during the
questioning. "You act as if my child is sitting next to me, and I'm
here, engaging in monkey business. Within two days, the child was
gone. If you had done something, I wouldn't have come to court,"
he said, addressing the doctors.
Speaking to Epress.am during recess, Lilit Vardanyan's attorney,
Givi Hovhannisyan, said when the child was admitted she didn't have
pneumonia, but was diagnosed with acute respiratory infection, and
the treatment was carried out accordingly. In the attorney's opinion,
the child subsequently acquired fulminant pneumonia.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/05/if-you-had-done-something-i-wouldnt-have-gone-to-court-father-of-deceased-2-year-old-to-doctors.html
06.05.2014 17:29 epress.am
In the opinion of Arabkir Joint Medical Center doctors Lilit Vardanyan
and Zarine Ayvzyan, accused in the death of 2-year-old Lia Misakyan,
they are accused only because they are young doctors. "But when young
journalists write about us, their written words are not questioned,"
said Ayvazyan today at the Court of General Jurisdiction of Arabkir
and Kanaker-Zeytun Administrative Districts of Yerevan.
Recall, according to the case materials, Lia Minasyan's parents took
their daughter to the Arabkir Joint Medical Center on Dec. 31, 2013,
at around 8 pm, but on Jan. 2, 2014, the child died, according to
the expert, from pneumonia.
Expert Gagik Harutyunyan continued to be questioned in court today.
Ayvazyan's attorney, Yerem Sargsyan, tried to prove that the conclusion
was wrong, and his client gave the correct diagnosis: the child did
not have symptoms of pneumonia. Sargsyan, in particular, said the
child had hyperventilation of 30-32; meanwhile, to be considered a
symptom of pneumonia, there must be more than 40 breaths.
The expert said it's not only breathing that indicates the existence
of pneumonia.
"The child refused to eat; for 3 days, her temperature did not drop.
She had [...]; her lips were blue; [she was] vomiting," said the
expert.
Sargsyan implied that the expert is unreliable. He recalled that the
examination carried out by Harutyunyan in another case of death (of
Mariam Arshakyan) was later rejected. The attorney also said that
the expert failed to conduct a bacteriological examination; thus,
he cannot confidently assert that the liquid from the child's throat
was pus. Since Yerem Sargsyan had a lot of questions, presiding Judge
Avetisyan urged the witness to respond only to questions directly
related to the conclusion.
The child's father, Georgy Miskayan, intervened during the
questioning. "You act as if my child is sitting next to me, and I'm
here, engaging in monkey business. Within two days, the child was
gone. If you had done something, I wouldn't have come to court,"
he said, addressing the doctors.
Speaking to Epress.am during recess, Lilit Vardanyan's attorney,
Givi Hovhannisyan, said when the child was admitted she didn't have
pneumonia, but was diagnosed with acute respiratory infection, and
the treatment was carried out accordingly. In the attorney's opinion,
the child subsequently acquired fulminant pneumonia.
http://www.epress.am/en/2014/06/05/if-you-had-done-something-i-wouldnt-have-gone-to-court-father-of-deceased-2-year-old-to-doctors.html