A court in Blagoveshchensk, Russia ordered the Amur Clinical Children's Hospital to pay more than 7 million rubles to the families of children who contracted hepatitis in the hematology department.

This is reported by the Prosecutor General's Office, which filed lawsuits with the court.

The hospital complied with the court decision in full, the report said.. 10 families received compensations in the amount of 700 to 800 thousand rubles.

The Rospotrebnadzor investigation showed that the hospital management did not comply with sanitary and epidemiological requirements, as a result of which a “chronic focus” of hepatitis C appeared in the hematology department. The cause, according to investigators, was non-sterile needles and catheters for blood transfusion..

The infection of patients in the pediatric hematology department became known in December 2018..

It was reported about 169 victims who were treated in the department for 18 years. More than 20 claims for moral compensation filed against the hospital. In January 2020, the first claim was satisfied. The hospital was ordered to pay the parents of the injured child 600 thousand rubles.

Doctors at the regional hospital denied that they infected children. They complained about bullying. In February 2020, the doctors of the hematology department of the Amur Regional Children's Hospital resigned at full strength.