A ten-year-old boy has died at Sofia’s Pirogov hospital after being transferred by ambulance from Etropole. The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has opened a pre-trial investigation into his death on 24 October.
The child was injured in a fall from a ladder on agricultural machinery and was taken to Sofia. His parents say he was conscious when he arrived at the hospital.
The family alleges that they waited more than two hours before he was admitted and accuses the medical team of a delayed response. These are parental allegations for investigators to examine, rather than an established finding about the cause of death or the responsibility of an individual doctor.
The reported sequence says the boy was examined and subsequently taken to a resuscitation room. His relatives were later told that he had died.
Prosecutors began proceedings before receiving a complaint from the parents. The investigation concerns whether a death resulted from lack of knowledge or negligent performance of an activity involving heightened danger.
Medical records, the timing of individual interventions and expert assessment of the injuries and treatment will be central to establishing what happened. Opening an investigation means the circumstances are being examined; it does not amount to a judicial finding of liability.
