ECHR 2009/15 case of Codarcea v. Romania, 2 June 2009, no. 31675/04 (third section).

摘要

Elvira Codarcea, a Romanian national, was born in 1933; she is a lawyer. On 4 June 1996 she was admitted to Targu Mures Hospital for the removal of an acrochordon on her lower jaw and a post-operative healing problem affecting her right thigh. Doctor B. recommended plastic surgery and performed a blepharo-plasty (eyelid surgery). Mrs Codarcea had to be taken into hospital and operated on again, from 8 to 9 August 1996, because - following the blepharoplasty -her eyelids would not close. She was taken into hospital again from 20 to 21 August the same year and this time Dr B. performed a third blepharoplasty as well as more plastic surgery. These operations resulted in paralysis of the right side of her face and other adverse consequences, including neurasthenic depression, requiring specialist medical treatment. Several further operations had to be performed.