My name is Tibor Ferenc Páll; I am a 37-year-old resident of Kállósemjén and I am a qualified social worker

I have been receiving a care allowance since January 2024 and will continue to do so until 1 May 2026 due to my father’s illness.

My father passed away on 23 January 2026 in the Internal Medicine Intensive Care Unit at the András Jósa Hospital from unknown causes, and I will continue to receive the care allowance for a further three months on an ex gratia basis.

My father had been on disability pension since I was a small child, as he was completely blind in one eye and had only about 20% vision in the other, having contracted an illness in his youth which affected his eyes, as it was an incurable disease at the time.

He also suffered from severe diabetes, which led to neuropathy and nerve damage in his legs; as a result, five years ago an ulcer developed on his leg, which my mother bandaged every day as it never healed.

My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2023. He had difficulty walking and needed help getting out of the car; he specifically bought a motorised chair to help him stand up from watching TV, so that he could make family life easier, but I also looked after him constantly, helping him with his daily life. In September 2025, he fell down the steps of the terrace and injured himself so badly that he had to be taken to hospital, where it turned out he had fractured his cervical vertebrae; the third and seventh vertebrae were broken. She was kept in hospital for a week; the operation was scheduled for December but was postponed further to 13 January 2026.

She was in terrible pain but she endured it without complaining; however, anyone in such pain would be very tense and in a bad mood because she was in agony, unable to eat by herself due to the neck brace, and could only drink through a straw, which I constantly helped her with.

We had to take him for check-ups several times, and it turned out that a cervical herniation had also developed due to the vertebral fracture.

For four months, he could only stay in his room because he couldn’t really move about with the neck brace, which was very hard for him to cope with, but there was nothing we could do; meanwhile, the operation was postponed until 13 January.

 My father, despite all these illnesses, kept fighting; he didn’t give up – in fact, he had his own goals.

 May God rest his soul; he suffered for weeks, in such great pain.

I am filled with pride that he didn’t give up, but he was treated unfairly in hospital after the operation.

For seven days after the operation, he was in a coma; he was not conscious. He was hallucinating and aggressive, so the doctor wanted to send him home because he wasn’t cooperating. My mum spoke up loudly to the doctor: ‘Doctor, my husband isn’t even conscious. I’ll sign the treatment form and let the doctor treat him.’ That’s why the doctor wanted to send him home, because he couldn’t perform an MRI scan after the operation – he’d moved out of position during the scan as he wasn’t conscious; he was hallucinating and aggressive.

I think this was because he was either treated with medication here or suffered brain damage during the operation due to a lack of oxygen resulting from inadequate anaesthesia.

Despite this, the doctor went ahead with the operation; it was successful because he wasn’t paralysed, he just couldn’t move on his own.

That is why his attending doctor gave him a medication to treat his aggression and improve his mood, which cannot be given alongside his Parkinson’s medication; I found this out later from another doctor because there is a high probability that they could interact with each other.

The doctor made a mistake here; he didn’t consider the risks of the two medicines being taken at the same time. I suppose he didn’t care because, to him, my father was just a stranger.

As a result of the medication, my father fell into a coma. After two days in a coma, I reported the doctor because there was no treatment plan. He even admitted to me that the coma was caused by the medication, but even he didn’t understand why he hadn’t woken up after two days, as the drug clears from the body after one day.

The attending doctor inadvertently admitted to me that the coma was caused by the medication, then snapped at me, saying he didn’t have time to explain everything to me.

So I called the patient rights representative and, on their advice, lodged a complaint with the hospital’s medical director, requesting the following:

A medical case review

Appropriate care, as he was lying in a room where his condition was not even being monitored

I asked that the attending doctor be held accountable for prescribing my father a medication that should not have been given to him, as it could have caused a coma due to the medication he was already taking for Parkinson’s disease.

They began treating my father the next day and transferred him to the intensive care unit of the Department of Internal Medicine, where they started treatment, but his vital signs were already weak. After two days in a coma, his circulation collapsed on the third day and he died.

The cause of death is unknown as there is suspicion of medical negligence; the internal medicine doctor did not agree with the surgeon’s diagnosis, which is why the cause of death remains unknown. The doctor was already aware that I had filed a complaint and did not dare to accept responsibility following the previous doctor’s treatment because the symptoms did not add up.

It is under investigation because we filed a complaint with the police; the care was substandard and the treatment inadequate – my father deserved better than this.

The post-mortem report stated that I suspected pneumonia, but the forensic pathologist forgot to take a blood sample from my father, which the police investigator also failed to understand; to me, this clearly appears to be a procedural error.

According to the autopsy report, the cause of death was natural causes, as pneumonia is not covered, so the insurance company will not pay anything.

The investigation is still ongoing. I intend to sue the doctor and the hospital in civil proceedings because

we want justice because the way my father was treated was disgraceful; he was treated for 10 days in hospital, growing weaker and weaker, and they only treated him in a way that made things worse, until eventually his circulation collapsed and his heart stopped. He didn’t deserve this – in fact, no one deserves this: to wait four months for an operation for a broken cervical vertebra, and when he was operated on, he was no longer in his right mind; he was hallucinating. Then, out of sheer irresponsibility, they gave him a drug that put him into a coma, and he died three days later.

We certainly didn’t expect this, and we’re not in a good financial position; the legal fees would be around 2 million forints, so that I can initiate proceedings in the name of justice and ensure that what happened to us does not happen to anyone else. It may well be that the doctor treated him incorrectly because he expected us to pay him, but he was disrespectful to us and to my father, as was evident from his attitude.

In addition, I am caring for my father’s mother, as since her son’s death she has become completely bedridden and her dementia has worsened, so she requires constant supervision, which I am the only one in the family willing to provide because I love her very much; she raised and taught me when I was a child.

Please help me financially so that I can hire a solicitor at my own expense and initiate legal proceedings; moreover, my means of subsistence are currently limited.

Thank you in advance to anyone who supports me with their help!

“God bless the cheerful giver”