About the tragic incident with the 55-year-old police officer from Thessaloniki who learned after a year that he has cancer as the biopsy was delayed, his lawyer, Artemis Dialyna, spoke to OPEN and the show “Now Together”.
The police officer was initially admitted to the Thessaloniki military hospital due to abdominal pain, and the diagnosis given was acute appendicitis. After he had surgery, a sample was sent for a biopsy, and a year later he was told he had cancer. In fact, due to the delay, the cancer progressed and is now inoperable, with the man resorting to justice.
“When it was announced that he had cancer, it was very unreal. He received a call “are you so-and-so” they asked him, “we would like to make an appointment to talk”. “Did something happen to my child” asked the policeman. “No, it’s not about your child, it’s something that concerns you” they answered, he thinks a bit, he asked “what concerns me” with the doctors answering him “do you remember you had an operation a year ago?” That’s what we want to talk about.” “Is there anything to worry about?” asked the policeman. “It’s something worrying, otherwise we wouldn’t have taken you,” they answered him, he initially said.
When asked why the biopsy took so long, Mrs. Dialyna mentioned that this was also the question to the doctors of a relative of the 55-year-old who had accompanied him. “The doctor said that he was expecting this question and replied that ‘the truth is that the biopsies are delayed a bit, but in the case of your brother it was delayed a bit more because it was considered one of the incidents that are not considered dangerous.’
Ms. Dialyna went on to say that he was coldly told that he has cancer, described the situation with his bedridden wife and revealed that it is true that doctors have told the officer that his condition is considered inoperable.
Source: www.diaforetiko.gr
