Family of Spanish Man in Comatose for 22 Years To Receive Massive Compensation for Clinical Negligence

The family of the Spanish man who slipped into a coma 22 years ago during cosmetic surgery that went wrong will now receive 1.075 million euros from the medical clinic on order of the country's Supreme Court .

The insurance company of the Madrid clinic will pay the compensation to the parents of Antonio Meno, 42, who has lived in a vegetative state since a nose operation in 1989.

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The court last November ordered the reopening of the highly publicised case following new testimony from a doctor at the clinic.

Meno's parents, both retired bakers, camped outside the justice ministry in Madrid for 16 months along with their son after they were forced to sell their home to pay 400,000 euros ($569,000) in legal costs.

The anaesthetist at Meno's operation has denied accusations of negligence levelled by the family, saying he had choked on his own vomit following the surgery.

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A Madrid court convicted the anaesthetist of negligence in 1993, but that decision was later overturned.

But a doctor who was present at the surgery recently came forward to state that the "accident" had taken place during the operation when the anaesthetist was out of the room and Meno's oxygen supply tube was undone.

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