Appeals court upholds medical negligence ruling in boy’s death

The appeals court has dismissed all appeals and upheld the ruling of the court-of-first instance in the case of 10-year-old Stavros Yiorgallis, from Klavdia, who died after being discharged from hospital with a serious head injury in 2018.

In May 2022, the Larnaca district court found GP Eracles Pantelidakis guilty of medical negligence, saying he failed to properly examine the head X-ray of the boy, who later died from the injury.

It had also acquitted Kyriakos Kyriakides...