YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The Court of First Instance of the communities of Ajapniak and Davitashen, Yerevan, sentenced on March 14 Armen Sargsian, the surgeon of the 2nd surgical department of the "Armenia" medical center to 4-year imprisonment. By this the court considered reasoned the accusations presented towards him of causing treated patient Nune Baghdasarian's (born in 1984) death in the consequence of improperly implementing his obligations, fulfilling them carelessly and unconscientiously. N.Baghdasarian was taken to the hospital on October 19, 2005, with the diagnosis "acute stomach, acute destructive appendicitis, local peritonitis." A.Sargsian operated on her on the same day, the patient was moved to the therapy department and inspite of the serum production from the drainage-tube, the drainage-tube was operated. Besides, the patient was discharged from the hospital with 37.2 degree temperature. No control or examination was carried out before October 26, the patient's next visit to the hospital, though the pathology continued in the stomach cavity and post-operational peritonitis developed. As a result the serum peritonitis developed and turned into spreading fibroma mattery peritonitis. The doctor did not make correct diagnosis on October 26 and, in conditions of 38.5 temperature, pains in the region of stomach and existence of swelling, the patient was again sent home. N.Baghdasarian was re-operated after being examined by another specialist already on October 27, but in the consequence of development of difficulties incompatible with life, it was not managed to save her life, and N.Baghdasarian died on October 28.

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