Branislav Vemić from Šavnik called on the prosecutor's office to determine ex officio whether there was a failure in the treatment of his wife, announcing a private lawsuit against the Nikšić hospital and doctors for inadequately provided health care.
He told "Vijesta" that his wife had lost sight in her left eye, and that no one at the Nikšić General Hospital had measured her eye pressure during the examination and nearly twenty days of hospital treatment.
The Nikšić hospital told Vijesta that all therapeutic and diagnostic procedures were performed on the patient during hospital treatment and adequate health care was provided, after which she was referred to the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) for continued treatment.
Vemic said that his wife Elena due to severe pain in the area of the head, eyes and temples, she reported to the doctor of the Nikšić hospital on Friday, February 15. He pointed out that the attending physician referred her to an ophthalmologist, but that she was sent home with the alleged explanation that the complaints were from the sinuses.
Vemic said that his wife suffered even stronger pain during the weekend.
"After three days, she lost her vision in her left eye and on Monday, February 18, she was admitted to the hospital, where she remained until March 8," he said, adding that one of the doctors then allegedly stated that she should have been hospitalized anyway on Friday.
All the time, as Vemić claims, doctors were looking for the cause of vision loss, using various diagnostic methods - magnetic resonance, scanner and X-ray, but no one measured the eye pressure, even though it was a problem pointed out by his wife.
"Doctors told us that eye pressure is impossible to do, because the eye has eroded," said Vemić.
He said that his wife was discharged from the hospital on March 8, and that in the discharge list, which he submitted to "Vijesta", it is written that her health condition has improved, that the decrease in visual acuity cannot be explained and that she is being referred to the KCCG for continuation of treatment.
Vemic said that even after being discharged from the ophthalmology department, his wife was still in severe pain. As he says, they received the discharge list only four days later. The family decided that day to seek help from the Glaucoma Clinic Reference Center of the University of Zagreb. Vemić pointed out that the doctors there measured his wife's eye pressure right after admission, which was 60 in one eye and 50 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) in the other.
"There were no barriers to measuring eye pressure immediately upon admission. The doctors immediately lowered it with a laser. The council of doctors is considering the possibility of surgery on the right eye...", explained Vemić.
He assessed that this "unrecorded case of negligence towards the patient is a slap in the face to the healthcare system" and that he would initiate proceedings before the authorities so that the sick citizens would not suffer the same fate in the future.
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