CEDH · CASELAW;COMMUNICATEDCASES;ENG — 3 mars 2014

.s800EAC49 { font-size:12pt } .sFE10DC93 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sA6BC7FA7 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt; text-align:right } .s5E1364CA { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s8229ABDD { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s72EB7DC5 { margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center } .s2D57E2E { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:underline; text-transform:uppercase } .s9793A85B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:14.2pt } .sD3B63DAD { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:14pt } .s68C46B95 { margin-top:36pt; margin-bottom:12pt; text-align:center } .s32563E28 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic }   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 and 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?