The parents of a minor child appealed yesterday before the Prosecutor of the Rhodes Plenary Court, Bulgarian citizens, against a paediatrician in Rhodes whom they accuse of causing bodily harm by negligence.
As they claim, on the morning of 21 January 2022, their 16-year-old son woke up at about 7.00 am, complaining of acute pain in his groin area and stated that he was unable to go to school.
Then, according to the Republic of Rhodes, at about 10 am of the same day, the mother accompanied the child to the office of the doctor who, after examining him by palpation and ultrasound, diagnosed that he was suffering from inguinal hernia. This did not require immediate treatment, but he granted the mother a certificate to justify her absences from school that day. She also advised her son to improve his diet and lose weight in order to cope with the existing condition, otherwise he would have to undergo surgery in five to ten years, as she claimed to have told them.
During the same day and over the weekend, the 16-year-old continued to experience persistent pain in the groin area and although the instructions of the accused paediatrician reassured them, they visited a urologist on Monday 24. The mother accompanied the child to the office of a urological andrological surgeon, who after clinical examination observed swelling and mild redness of the left hemisphere with swelling of the left testicle and fixation of the left testicle at the external inguinal orifice.
The doctor told the mother that she was probably suffering from left testicular torsion and not inguinal hernia, a condition that requires immediate surgery, and suggested immediate surgical investigation and treatment at a private clinic where he operates. A suggestion which they were unable to follow due to their financial inability.
He immediately drew up an informative medical note and referred the child to Rhodes General Hospital for immediate treatment, while at the same time he contacted by telephone the doctor on duty in the surgical emergency department of Rhodes General Hospital, whom he informed of the nature and urgency of the case.
Subsequently, the mother transferred the child to the surgical emergency department, where, after an examination and testicular ultrasound, a possible left testicular torsion was found. She was immediately taken to the operating room for surgical exploration, where complete left testicular torsion with complete necrosis was found, resulting in orchiectomy and left testicular fixation.
After the surgery, he remained hospitalized, continuously bedridden for two days in the Pediatric Surgery Department receiving antibiotic and analgesic treatment for ten days, while the attending physician advised him to avoid sports activities for one month.
The child underwent a spermogram and hormonal tests by a microbiologist and the results showed that he has suffered severe damage to his fertility and has been on medication ever since.
Source: protothema.gr
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