In the Akmola region, a court ruled in favor of a machine operator whose doctors at the Tselinograd clinic repeatedly misdiagnosed him, missing the development of phlegmon. The medical facility will now pay the victim 700,000 tenge in moral damages and over 900,000 tenge for the period of long-term disability. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
The regional court of the Akmola region considered a lawsuit by a Kazakh citizen against three doctors of the district clinic. During the proceedings, it was found that the doctors' treatment led the patient to an emergency operation.
The court established that in July 2025, a Kazakh citizen working as a machine operator at an LLP contacted the district clinic with complaints of headache, cough, runny nose, fever, and shoulder pain.
Initially, he was diagnosed with acute respiratory viral infection, acute nasopharyngitis, chronic bronchitis in the exacerbation stage, and polysegmental pneumonia.
However, a few days later, the patient returned to the doctors with complaints of pain and swelling of the arms and shoulder. This time, the doctor diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis and recommended a consultation with a traumatologist. The traumatologist, in turn, diagnosed a sprain and overstrain of the shoulder joint ligaments, and the third doctor simply duplicated the traumatologist's diagnosis.
"A week later, the patient was urgently hospitalized in a hospital in Astana, where he was diagnosed with phlegmon of the left upper limb, suprascapular and subscapular regions. An emergency surgical operation was performed, and about 1.5 liters of pus were pumped out," the report says.
According to the expert commission's conclusion, the district clinic doctors made several mistakes, including untimely diagnosis and ignoring tests and examinations. All this led to a hematoma and the development of phlegmon, and ultimately to dysfunction of the shoulder joint.
It is noted that the first-instance court partially satisfied the patient's claim against the clinic. At that time, only 700,000 tenge in moral damages were recovered in favor of the patient, while the claim for lost earnings and treatment costs was denied.
However, the board reviewing the case additionally recovered from the clinic in favor of the patient the amount of lost earnings in the amount of 914,000 tenge, since the person was on sick leave for a long time. The rest of the court decision remained unchanged.
Earlier, Kursiv reported that a Kazakh citizen sued a hospital for 1.5 million tenge for a tampon forgotten inside him.
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