Paramedic sentenced to 6 years in prison

The court of the capital district Shokhmansur found a doctor of the ambulance service in Dushanbe guilty of the death of a minor.

On September 25, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan reported that on September 19, the Shokhmansur District Court in Dushanbe found Khojaev A.M. guilty under Article 129, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan and sentenced him to 6 years in prison to be served in a general regime colony.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the doctor was also banned from holding positions in the healthcare sector for a period of 3 years.

“On April 8, 2023, at 11:50 AM, the duty doctor of the 1st department of the State Institution of Emergency Medical Assistance in Dushanbe, surgeon Khojaev A.M., received patient Shukurova Sevinch Umedovna, born March 3, 2006, who complained of severe lower abdominal pain, did not conduct a proper examination, and without determining the cause of Shukurova S.U.’s lower abdominal pain, prescribed the aforementioned patient the medications ‘Lidase’ and ‘Novocaine’,” the prosecutor’s office stated.

According to the investigation, after the doctor prescribed the medications, the nurse administered them to the minor Shukurova, “resulting in the patient experiencing anaphylactic shock, which led to her death.”

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan, in its statement, describes the doctor’s actions as “a superficial diagnosis and gross negligence of the highest degree,” however, the doctor’s own opinion regarding this incident is currently unavailable.