A man who was hospitalized at a prefectural hospital in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture left the hospital without permission and committed suicide. , the Supreme Court canceled the judgment of the second trial that ordered the prefecture to compensate, and dismissed the bereaved family's lawsuit.
The mother of a 38-year-old man who was hospitalized at the Marugame Prefectural Hospital for treatment of schizophrenia said that the man left the hospital without permission and committed suicide in 2010. In addition to preventing suicide if measures had been taken, he would not have been hospitalized if he had known that measures had not been taken," and demanded compensation from Kagawa Prefecture.
In the second trial, the Takamatsu High Court judged that the hospital did not explain in advance that sufficient measures had not been taken, and contrary to the first trial, it accepted the complaint and ordered the prefecture to pay compensation of 1.1 million yen. I was.
In the ruling on the 27th, Presiding Judge Mamoru Miura of the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court said, ``The medical standards at that time did not require the wearing of sensors to prevent people from going out without permission. So, I was trying to prevent suicide by deciding whether to go out."
On top of that, he said, ``It cannot be said that the risk of hospitalized patients going out without permission and committing suicide at this hospital was particularly high, and it is not recognized that the man told the doctor that he would choose a hospital based on whether or not measures were taken. It cannot be said that there was an obligation to explain to the family."