Hospital to compensate blinded patients
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A Beijing hospital yesterday agreed to pay compensation to patients who were blinded as a result of substandard medical gas being used during eye surgery, but it denied its medical staff were at fault.
Sixteen patients filed separate lawsuits against Peking University Third Hospital at Beijing’s Haidian District Court in December, asking for 300,000 yuan (US$48,387)in compensation.
They also asked for an assessment of the hospital’s treatment procedures to be carried out, which the judges warned would be a lengthy process.
The Tianjin Jingming New Technological Development Co, Chinese mainland’s only registered supplier of perflutren gas, was fined 5.18 million yuan (US$799,274) in April.
The gas is used during the repair of detached retinas during eye surgery.
The China Food and Drug Administration first received reports about the gas on June 7, 2015 and recalled all stocks from the market.
The hospital told the court the substandard medical gas was entirely to blame, insisting that the hospital’s medical procedures played no role.
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