VIDEO: Helsinki believes that the procedure for the patient who accuses of wrongly diagnosed cancer is being delayed too much

Tona Kareva - legal adviser in the Helsinki Committee / Photo: "Sloboden Pechat" - Dragan Mitreski

Since 2019, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has been providing legal assistance to patient S.S. from Tetovo, who in 2018 submitted a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor's Office against doctors and the Radiotherapy and Oncology Clinic for serious crimes against people's health and negligent work in the service. The patient's breasts were removed even though, according to her, she did not have cancer, and this was shown by the histopathology findings after the operation.

The case was first publicly reported by "Sloboden Pechat" after S.S decided to speak about him, dissatisfied with the actions of the Prosecutor's Office.

The opinion of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is that the whole procedure has been delayed too much because more than 2018 years have passed since the criminal complaint in 4, and there is no public prosecutor's decision.

- If we take into account the crime charged and the sensitivity of the case, it is really a very long period. Especially since Article 301 of the Law on Criminal Procedure says that the public prosecutor ends the investigation when he judges that the situation is sufficiently clarified and that he can make a decision, that is, whether to file an indictment or stop the investigative procedure. Because at the moment there is not even an accusation, but an investigative procedure that lasts 3.5 years. If the investigative procedure is not completed within 6 months, the public prosecutor should notify the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, and for complex cases, this deadline can be extended for another 6 months, and as an exception, the public prosecutor can extend the deadline for another 3 months. All these deadlines have been breached. The procedure has been going on for three and a half to four years and the victim in this case, who is really facing serious consequences of what happened to her, is put in an unenviable situation where there is no answer for what happened and she is waiting for an answer from the institutions that do not give her because it is not being acted on quickly enough, Tona Kareva, a legal adviser at the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, who has been familiar with the case since the very beginning, told "Sloboden Pechat".

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