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.
Etsuko Nagai, 58, had surgery on her middle finger Feb. 10, 1999, at Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital in Shibuya Ward after checking in for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.