Prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence for the former head of the ENT department at Son Espases hospital in connection with the death of the former mayor of Sa Pobla following an operation.
He is also demanding compensation of 415,000 euros and his disqualification for five years.
PalmThe prosecution accuses the former head of the Otorhinolaryngology Service of the Son Espases University Hospital in Palma of manslaughter due to gross negligence and requests a two-year prison sentence for the death of Joan Comes, the former mayor of Sa Pobla, following an operation.
In its indictment, to which Europa Press had access, the Public Prosecutor's Office also demands that the accused compensate the family, whose legal representation is handled by lawyer Daniel Castro, with a total of 415,000 euros. It also demands that the doctor be barred from practicing medicine for five years.
The events, which will be judged soon, date back to April 24, 2020, when, without informing the doctor who was treating the patient, who suffered from cancer, the accused performed an intervention without the support of the multidisciplinary team responsible for the patient's care and using a technique that ended up favoring the spread. According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the procedure performed did not correspond to any treatment appropriate to current scientific knowledge, and therefore constituted a medical action disconnected from proper practice, resulting in a clinical situation incompatible with any subsequent curative therapeutic possibility. The former mayor of Sa Pobla died on March 29, 2021.
