A Russian man who got a vasectomy after fathering four children is preparing to sue the medical clinic that botched the surgery and caused him to father a fifth child.
In 2022, after becoming a father for the fourth time, Maxim, a 45-year-old man from the Russian city of Ufa, made the radical decision to get a vasectomy to ensure that he didn’t get his wife pregnant again.
He visited “Promeditsina”, a local medical clinic that performed vasectomies, and agreed to pay 30,000 rubles ($330) for the operation.
The procedure was successful and Maxim was discharged from the clinic after only a few hours.
Everything was well and good until early last year when Maxim’s wife told him that she was pregnant again, which was quite a shock, considering the circumstances.
Despite the man’s hopes of a false positive result on the pregnancy test, In November of last year, he became a father for the fifth time.
When Maxim contacted the clinic where he had gotten the vasectomy for an explanation, he was asked to undergo a paternity test and a spermogram to confirm that he was still able to father children.
Both tests confirmed that the Russian man was indeed still very fertile, but instead of taking responsibility, the clinic called his case a “medical miracle” and allegedly told him that he should be glad about having a baby.
According to the SHOT News Telegram channel, the Ufa clinic offered to settle the dispute by returning the cost of the vasectomy to the client, but Maxim refused the offer.
He and his family are reportedly lawyering up to sue the clinic for moral damages and for the upcoming expenses associated with raising a fifth child.
In a similar case last year, a Colombian doctor was ordered by a judge to financially support a patient’s baby until they turned 18 after the patient ended up conceiving the baby despite undergoing a vasectomy.
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