The Tokyo District Court on Friday awarded 60 million yen to the family of a patient who died in a Tokyo hospital in 1999 after being administered disinfectant through an intravenous drip.
The compensation is to be paid by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the former head of the hospital and a doctor there.
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