11. A.'s parents applied to the Kirov Regional Children's Hospital ("the hospital") on 2 October 2003 complaining about the child's eyesight, paleness of skin, vomiting, poor appetite and limpness.
12. It appears that prior to 2 October 2003 A. had been undergoing
outpatient treatment in that hospital on account of B deficiency anaemia
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which had been confirmed by bone marrow aspiration on 19 September 2003.
13. On 9 October 2003 the medical council convened and approved a proposal to subject A. to a medical examination. As a result of the examination, it was suggested that A. might have a disease of the central nervous system.
14. Subsequently A. was sent to the Russian Children's Hospital in Moscow, where on 21 October 2003 the doctors diagnosed her as having acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. It appears that, despite the doctors' recommendations, the applicant and his spouse refused to consent to A.'s hospitalisation.
15. On 23 October 2003 the girl was nevertheless placed in the hospital for treatment for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The applicant's wife stayed with her.
16. On several occasions medical staff met the applicant and his spouse to explain the medical condition of A. Her medical file had entries to that effect.
17. On 31 October 2003 the medical staff had a conversation with E. concerning A.'s condition and the need to place her in an intensive care unit.
18. On 3, 4 and 5 November 2003 the hospital repeated its requests, but to no avail.
19. The applicant alleged that on 5 November 2003 a hospital employee and a man who introduced himself as a psychotherapist visited E. and asked her some questions. It appears that E. had impeded the medical staff from carrying out emergency medical measures in respect of A. and that such actions could have put the child's life at serious risk. Those actions raised the suspicions of the medical staff as to E.'s psychological state and the interview was considered justified by the need to protect A.'s life. Following the interview, the psychotherapist concluded that E. "was not in need of psychiatric treatment".
20. As of 3 November 2003 the hospital repeatedly informed the applicant and his spouse about the seriousness of A.'s condition and the need to continue her treatment in an intensive care unit of the hospital. However, the applicant and his spouse refused the requests.
21. On 11 November 2003 the hospital's management informed the parents that it had been decided to place A. in an intensive care unit and to separate her from E.
22. The hospital authorities also warned them that if E. refused to leave the hospital they would contact the local Custody and Guardianship Agency ("the Agency") for assistance.
23. According to the applicant, that notification was in reaction to his questions about the staff's access to A.'s medical records and the psychotherapist's visit to his wife.
24. In the Government's submission, the application to the Agency was justified by the need to secure A.'s health.
25. On the following day the applicant complained to the Kirov Regional Health Department (Департамент здравоохранения Кировской области) of interference with his private life and the psychotherapist's visit. He also queried whether it was necessary for A. to be placed in the intensive care unit.
26. On 9 December 2003 the Kirov Regional Health Department informed the applicant that a specially created committee had examined his complaint of 12 November 2003 and dismissed his submissions as unfounded.
27. According to the applicant, on 5 December 2003 the hospital authorities asked him to attend a doctors' meeting abo
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