Medical Negligence
The European Court of Human Rights found no violation of Article 2 of the Convention in the case of Levon v. Lithuania (no. 27121/23) of 8 July 2025.
The case concerned the effectiveness of the domestic proceedings relating to the death of the applicant’s father. A 78 years old men felt unwell in the morning of 25 December 2020 he was transported by the ambulance to the hospital, however the next day he was died at the hospital. The applicant alleged that the ambulance and the hospital had not provided his father with the necessary urgent medical assistance.
The Court refused to speculate on the basis of the medical information submitted to it, on whether the conclusions of the medical experts on which domestic court decisions were founded were correct. Even some omission of the civil proceedings were found insufficient to found a violation of Article 2 of the Convention as the Court assess the domestic legal system taken as a whole.