Communicated on 3 March 2014

FIFTH SECTION

Application no. 71050/11 Aleksandra Mstislavovna GORODOVICH against Ukraine lodged on 14 November 2011

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The applicant, Ms Aleksandra Mstislavovna Gorodovich , is a Ukrainian national, who was born in 1967 and lives in Lviv .

The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicant, may be summarised as follows.

During 1995-1996 doctor S. from a State hospital treated the applicant against hyperthyroidism by injecting her radioactive iodine. This resulted in the total and irreversible destruction of the applicant ’ s thyroid gland.

In 1998 the Ministry of Public Health, upon the applicant ’ s complaint, established that the above treatment was inadequate. The Ministry recommended the State hospital to dismiss S.

In November 1999 the prosecutors, upon the applicant ’ s complaint, instituted criminal investigations into the medical negligence which resulted in grave bodily harm. The investigations remain pending.

COMPLAINTS

The applicant complains under Article 3 of the Convention that the inadequate medical treatment amounted to torture a nd that this matter was not properly investigated.

QUESTION TO THE PARTIES

Having regard to the procedural protection from torture inhuman or degrading treatment (see paragraph 131 of Labita v. Italy [GC], no. 26772/95, ECHR 2000-IV), was the investigation in the present case by the domestic authorities in breach of Article 3 of the Convention?