In Transbaikalia, doctors for nine months could not distinguish a spinal tumor from osteochondrosis

A resident of Chita, suffering from a tumor of the thoracic spine, complained about the doctors who treated her for osteochondrosis for nine months, Mediazona writes about this.

In October 2012, during a physical education class, a 21-year-old student at the Railway Institute first felt severe chest pain and numbness in her legs. The girl turned to a therapist at a local clinic, where she was assured that there was nothing to worry about and that it was ordinary lumbar osteochondrosis.

A month later, the girl went to the doctor again - to the Trans-Baikal Regional Consultative and Diagnostic Center. This time the neurologist diagnosed the patient with disseminated encephalomyelitis. In February 2013, the girl was hospitalized at the Regional Clinical Hospital, where the diagnosis was changed to multiple sclerosis.

Over the course of six months, the girl was hospitalized three times at the Regional Clinical Hospital, and each time a council of doctors gathered who agreed with the diagnosis. Treatment of the disease was complicated by pregnancy, which ended in a caesarean section (the child was born healthy). Only in July 2013, the girl was sent for an MRI, where they found a large tumor in the thoracic spine, which metastasized within a few months.

The girl underwent two operations, five courses of chemotherapy and 20 courses of radiation therapy and became a disabled person of the first group.

After the patient contacted the hotline for victims of medical errors, lawyers of the Transbaikal Human Rights Center prepared and sent applications to the regional Ministry of Health, Roszdravnadzor and Zabaikalmedstrakh with a request to conduct an inspection of the quality of medical care provided to the patient.

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