NP: Harvey Weinstein is going to sue New York City’s health care system
Scandal-plagued US film producer Harvey Weinstein, who was diagnosed with cancer in October, has been hospitalised again and plans to sue the New York City health care system for medical malpractice, the New York Post reported, citing a statement from Weinstein’s representative.
NBC News reported on 22 October that Weinstein was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer – chronic myeloleukaemia. According to the TV channel, Weinstein was treated at a prison hospital on Rikers Island in New York.
‘Weinstein … plans to file a lawsuit against the city’s New York City Resident Health Care Program and Bellevue Hospital (Bellevue), claiming that the city’s refusal to provide him with ongoing treatment at Bellevue will prevent him from attending hearings on his cases,’ the outlet writes.
According to a spokesperson for the film producer, Weinstein has no claims against the doctors who treated him. The reason for the claim was the refusal of the authorities to leave him in the hospital Bellview during the court session, which, according to the representative, jeopardises his ability to attend the second session.
The newspaper story adds that Weinstein has been hospitalised again.
In July, NBC reported Weinstein’s hospitalisation ‘due to multiple health issues’. Weinstein’s representative and prison consultant Craig Rothfeld told the network at the time that the producer was taken to the hospital for treatment of diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal), fluid in his heart and lungs, and numerous other pathologies. That’s when Weinstein was also found to have COVID-19. In early September, ABC News reported that Weinstein was urgently hospitalised in New York for heart surgery.