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A third Russian doctor has thrown himself out of a hospital window after complaining that doctors face intolerable pressures from coronavirus.
Alexander Shulepov, 37, is fighting for his life with head injuries after participating in a video that claimed he was ordered to work despite testing positive for Covid-19.
He and his colleagues also warned about the shortage of PPE in the city of Voronezh. Later, lying in a coronavirus hospital bed, Shulepov made a second video to retract the claims amid suspicions that he was pressured to do so.
While receiving treatment at the Novousmanskaya District Hospital on Saturday, the experienced ambulance doctor jumped from a second-floor window suffering from skull fractures. You are now in serious condition.
Ambulance doctor Alexander Shulepov (left), 37, and ambulance paramedic Alexander Kosyakin, (right). Shulepov is fighting for his life with head injuries after participating in a video claiming that he was ordered to work despite testing positive for Covid-19.
Shulepov made a second video to retract the claims amid suspicions that he was pressured to do so.
Two senior female doctors in Russia recently died after falling from hospital windows amid reports that they had challenged their superiors for the lack of PPE for patients with coronavirus.
Shulepov was filmed with fellow paramedic Alexander Kosyakin who, a day earlier, had been summoned by police on suspicion of spreading false news after complaining about the EPP shortage.
The heads of their hospitals claimed the allegations were false, but doctors believed that Shulepov’s infection demonstrated the lack of protective equipment.
In the video, Kosyakin said: “ Ambulance doctor Alexander Shulepov is next to me, Covid-19 has just confirmed.
‘The chief doctor forces us to work, what do we do in this situation?
‘We are not going to leave the turn …
‘Alexander and I have been working together for a month.
‘This is the situation.
“Everyone says it’s false (but) these are real facts for you.”
Three days after being hospitalized, Shulepov recorded a video claiming that his condition had improved.
“I have a runny nose, otherwise everything is fine,” he said.
The doctor and acting director of the Krasnoayrsk Veterans Hospital, Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, died after falling out of the fifth-floor office window.
He stated that in the previous video “ we were very excited ” and that after he was found to be positive for Covid-19, he was fired from his shift.
This has led to accusations that they were forced to record a message from their sick bed cleaning their hospital bosses.
The hospital’s chief physician, Igor Potanin, has declined to comment.
In another case, Dr. Natalya Lebedeva, 48, fell 60 feet to her death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital after colleagues said she was unfairly blamed for the spread of the coronavirus at her clinic in Star City. , near Moscow, the training center for cosmonauts. .
She had been infected with Covid-19.
Dr. Natalya Lebedeva, 48, fell 60 feet to her death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital after colleagues said she was unfairly blamed for the spread of the coronavirus at her clinic in Star City, near Moscow. , the training center for cosmonauts.
Alexander Kosyakin had been summoned by the police on suspicion of spreading false news after complaining about the EPP shortage
Dr. Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, a mother of two, suffered fatal injuries after falling 60 feet from a window in her Krasnoyarsk hospital.
His colleagues said he had complained of an “acute shortage” of personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.
It occurred when Russia recorded a new record increase in coronavirus infections today with 10,633 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 134,687.
Deaths in the country also increased by 58 to 1,280, as Russia now registers more new infections than any European country.
Frontline medical workers have been hit hard by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, admitting that around 2,000 suffer from coronaviruses in the capital city.
