Psychiatric director resigns as inspection finds 'serious negligence'
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The director of the Sveti Ivan Psychiatric Clinic has resigned after health inspectors documented systemic failures in the treatment of a patient, Kristian Periš, who died at the facility. The report arrived alongside testimony from the mother of a 13-year-old girl who says her daughter was tied to a hospital bed because staff believed she was faking an illness; the girl was later found to have mononucleosis.
A three-year-old child died in Split after being found with severe injuries in the city center. Police are investigating the circumstances of what appears to have been a fall, though they have not yet reached a final conclusion.
National attention shifts briefly to Wembley tonight as the football team faces England. In a news cycle dominated by hospital failures and local tragedies, the sports pages are providing the only available distraction.