A second cancer patient who was operated at the Military hospital in Thessaloniki revealed that he was also informed about the biopsy results 8 months and thus after the sarcoma had returned and he took the histological samples to a private laboratory.
The complaint came by a 65-yeat-old retired police officer who was diagnosed with cancer. For months, he has been requesting his surgeon about the results of the biopsy. Without success. In the end, he sent the findings himself to a private laboratory to find out that he had cancer and thus of a a rare and aggressive type of sarcoma.
In June 2019, the retired colonel underwent surgery to remove a painful mass from his leg at the 424th General Hospital in May 2019. Despite his pressure to learn the results of the biopsy, he was reassured by the surgeon that the mass was not malignant.
8 months later a lump reappeared in the same spot and this was again removed and no biopsy results.
In February 2020, he took himself the paraffin cubs with the histological samples and sent it to a private laboratory. The results were shocking for the 65-year-old man.
Speaking to reporters, the second patient apologized to his colleague for not making his case known earlier saying “I was fighting for my life, had no time for lawsuits.”
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According to thesstoday.gr, the 65-year-old retired colonel submitted his testimony to the Military Court as a witness in the case of the 55-year-old police lieutenant who went for appendicitis surgery and 8 months later he was informed that he had cancer. Meanwhile the untreated cancer had spread to other organs with no hope of surgery or cure. He filed a lawsuit last month. (KTG reported about the case HERE.)
After the lawsuit was filed and the case created furor, the Defense Ministry launched in investigation.
Speaking to media on Thursday outside the Military Court, the lawyer of the police officer who filed the lawsuit said that the Ministry, specifically the Deputy Defense Minister, was briefed about the situation in the Military hospital since 2021.
