Family of Irvo Otieno files new $25M lawsuit against Parham Doctors' Hospital in Henrico
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The estate of Irvo Otieno has filed a $25 million lawsuit against HCA's Parham Doctors' Hospital. The complaint, filed in federal court just days before the two-year anniversary of Otieno's death, alleges the hospital failed to properly treat him, which led to a fatal chain of events.
It was March 3, 2023, when Otieno suffered a mental health crisis at his home, prompting a 911 call from a neighbor and a response from Henrico Police.
Officers placed him under an Emergency Custody Order, meaning he was determined to be unwilling or unable to seek treatment for his mental illness, and he was taken to Parham Doctors' Hospital.
That's where his mother, Caroline Ouko, believes everything went downhill.
“If they took care of Irvo, if they stabilized him, they could have mitigated the risk of him getting arrested and removed from the hospital," Ouko told CBS 6.
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