OBOLADZE AND LOBZHANIDZE v. GEORGIA

THIRD SECTIONApplication no. 31197/06Zviad OBOLADZE and Nino LOBZHANIDZE against Georgialodged on 7 July 2006STATEMENT OF FACTS 1.  The applicants, Mr Zviad Oboladze (“the first applicant”), and Ms Nino Lobzhanidze (“the second applicant”), are Georgian nationals who were born in 1977 and 1958 and live in Tbilisi and Mtskheta respectively. They are represented before the Court by Ms K. Mekhuzla, Ms. T. Gabisonia and Mr. Wolfgang P. Schultz, lawyers practising in Tbilisi and Berlin respectively. The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.2.  Both applicants were employed at the material time as gynaecologists at Mtskheta hospital. The second applicant was also serving as the deputy director of the hospital.3.  On 22 September 2005 at about 5 a.m. a patient, G.M., with severe abdominal pain, was brought by ambulance to Mtskheta hospital. The first a …