Staff writer
Ikuo Kondo's son has been bedridden for 20 years, suffering damage from a spinal anesthesia mishap during an appendectomy.
Kondo, 63, the founder of the Nagano-based Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs Association, and his son, 32, filed a civil suit against the hospital that treated him, and after 11 years of litigation accepted a Tokyo High Court mediation plan for the hospital to pay them about 50 million yen.
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