3 Doctors Critical Of Russia's Handling Of COVID-19 Fell From Hospital Windows, Two Have Died
Wille most of the international attention on COVID-19 pandemic has been focused on countries like China, the US, UK, France, Germany, etc, Russia is silently emerging as the new hotspot of the virus.?
The country has so far recorded over 1,55,000 confirmed and 1,451 deaths from it.But what is more worrisome is the exponential rate in which the cases have surged.For the past three days, Russia has recorded more than 10,000 cases each.?
Russia has emerged as a new coronavirus hotspot with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin becoming the highest-ranking official to contract the infectionThe number of new cases in Russia is significantly higher compared to other European countries.?
Health experts broadly agree the growth in the number of cases can be explained in large part by the expanded testing for the virus, but also by people's general disregard for social distancing guidelines.Many have also questioned how the initial inaction by the government has caused the current situation.?
But Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, is not among the countries that are known to take criticism at its true spirits.?
Three Russian doctors were reminded of this the hard way.Over the past two weeks, three frontline health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia, and two of them have died.?While, Alexander Shulepov, an ambulance doctor in Voronezh, is in a critical condition after falling from a hospital window on Saturday.?
Shulepov and his colleague had filmed a video on April 22 complaining that the chief doctor of the Novaya Usman village hospital forced him to work despite the fact that he tested positive for Covid-19.?
The Novousmanskaya hospital, however, said in a statement that Shulepov had been taken off a shift as soon as he informed the hospital administration and was offered hospitalisation in the infectious diseases ward.?
The first doctor to die after falling from the window was Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, who allegedly opposed admitting Covid-19 patients due to protective equipment shortages and a lack of training among staff, was said to be in critical condition.?
This was followed by the death of Natalya Lebedeva, the chief of the ambulance center in the town of Zvyozdny near Moscow. She died on April 24, after accidentally falling from the window of the hospital while attending a phone call. She was treated at the hospital for COVID-19.?
So far around 80 Russian doctors have died from coronavirus-related complications in an unofficial list compiled by their colleagues.Many of the deaths were the result of the lack of protective equipment for the frontline workers.? ? ? ? ? ?
