Dr. Hoang Cong Luong delivers his final statement, asserting his innocence.
Given the opportunity to speak his final words, defendant Hoang Cong Luong asserted his complete innocence and hoped the court would consider the verdict fairly so that medical staff nationwide could feel secure in treating patients.
The three defendants were given the opportunity to speak their final words. All three expressed their deepest condolences to the nine families of the deceased victims and shared their sympathy for the physical and emotional pain of the affected patients. They also thanked the families for their pleas for leniency in sentencing.
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| The three defendants made their final statements before the court. |
Defendant Hoang Cong Luong stated that, in the dialysis accident, the most painful thing for him and the medical staff at the hospital was the inability to save all the patients.
“After 12 days of the first-instance trial, the defendant asserts his complete innocence and respectfully requests the Judicial Council to consider the case fairly and objectively, avoiding wrongful convictions, and to declare him not guilty so that he can have the opportunity to continue his work in medical examination and treatment, and so that medical staff nationwide can always trust the law and feel secure in examining and treating patients,” defendant Luong said.
Defendant Bui Manh Quoc (former director of Tram Anh company) frankly admitted that since the incident occurred, he has been very aware of the extent of his fault.
Therefore, the defendant hopes that the Panel of Judges will consider the most objective circumstances leading to his guilt, taking into account mitigating circumstances and his situation as the primary breadwinner in the family, to impose the lowest possible sentence, allowing him to have time to care for his wife and children as soon as possible.
Alarming warning
In his final statement, defendant Tran Van Son (a former employee of the hospital's Supply Department) issued a rather startling warning.
Son stated that the defendant's work actually showed that not only was the RO system not subjected to quality checks before being put into use, but ventilators, anesthesia machines, etc., were also simply received from the company after repairs and then handed over to the department for use.
The defendant asserted that no agency or unit inspected the equipment after the repair.
"After the incident, the defendant thought that medical equipment after repair needed to be inspected by a unit so that those working in the field of medical equipment could control the quality. Other hospitals also didn't have any engineers who could inspect the quality of the equipment," defendant Son said.
Finally, defendant Son requested the court to reduce his sentence to the lowest possible level, so that he could return to society sooner, rectify the consequences, and become a useful member of society.
After about 20 minutes of deliberation, the panel of judges concluded that the case involved many complex details and would announce the verdict at 2 PM on June 5th.
