Forensic experts: student who died in Nalchik from botulism could have been saved

Experts from the bureau of forensic-medical examination of the Ministry of Public Health of Kabardino-Balkaria have concluded that Radima Ezieva, a botulism patient, who died in the Urvan district hospital, could have been saved by timely and appropriate treatment.

Radima Ezieva died on October 30, 2011, when 48 students and teachers of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agricultural Academy were hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning. They were diagnosed with botulism.

"The examination of Ezieva on her admission to hospital was incomplete and untimely. The failure to conduct the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic actions, the lack of epidemiological vigilance of botulism, incorrect assessment of the patient's condition, wrong treatment of symptoms of the disease resulted in misdiagnosis and, consequently, in inappropriate treatment," says the conclusion of the above bureau.

A criminal case was initiated against Murat Bereketov, a doctor of the Urvan district hospital, under the article of "causing death by negligence due to improper execution of one's professional duties".

So far, the "Caucasian Knot" has no comments of Bereketov and other medics of the Urvan district hospital on the conclusions of forensic experts.