Doctors flew in

The landing of the employees of the Taimyr district hospital in the polar Volochanka looked like an illustration for the song about "Suddenly a wizard in a blue helicopter will fly." The “cinema”, however, showed the doctors themselves: they were informed right on the landing strip that the communal services of the village had just received a salary and had already washed: the drunken wife stabbed her husband, a neighbor and a hobby was torn by a “drill”, a certain moves took the schoolgirl to roll along the tundra-and the parents of the girl drink the second day for the strengthening of the lies between the peoples. The phrase “there will be a lot of work” doctors began at the airport and finished in the building of the district clinic, where they were located for a week: “And there is nowhere to rest.”

Narcological air squads appeared in Taimyr in 2003 Oleg Budargin, the governor of the Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (now the region is united with the Krasnoyarsk Territory), came to the next election meeting in a distant village, looked at how the people crawl from home to the house of the election committee, and decided to save the region from drunkenness. However, in three years the situation has changed little. Nenets, Nganasan, Dolgans and Russians continue to drink both with joy and grief. However, this is not only in Taimyr.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Russia ranks first in the world in alcohol consumption, in Europe it leads in mortality from the "left" vodka and alcohol -containing surrogates. Of the 143 million citizens of Russia, 2.5 million chronic alcoholics. However, according to doctors, the real figure is two times more.

At the porch of the Volochansk hospital - the parking of all -terrain vehicles, and at the cabinet of a narcologist -toll, who want to be encoded. Some residents of Volochanka were “torpedoed” 3-4 times. Women go to the doctors as a holiday: in sweaters with sparkles, fresh bruises are carefully masked by makeup. Romka, a guy from the medical group, responsible for the core, brings rural news to dinner: they will soon bring the salary to the state employees - he knows, wait for the continuation of the series “Rinding Power”; At the end of the month, meteorologists promise a snowstorm - do not fly away; There is a normal toilet (an alternative to a common bucket for 17 people) is at school, but this is far from the clinic. “It seems that we are all huddled here,” Roma concludes gloomily. Doctors nod doom. On Taimyr, cases when narcologists are treated in their native department, where patients were previously encoded, is not uncommon.

At night, while doctors are trying to doze off on hard hospital beds and couchs under the ECG apparatus, a group of Volochanites bursts into wards with a demand “right right now” splashes a gross or a medicine stronger. One of them, it seems, is our absenteeism - with a placed face.

Drunk patients with chopped and gunshot wounds and pregnant schoolgirls are the contingent of a sanavian. The helicopter for transportation from Taimyr settlements of heavy patients Dudinsky airport provides doctors with scandals, under the pressure of the district health department. The administration of the district for the second year does not repay the airport a five -million debt for Sanryis and does not compensate for the sale of tickets to indigenous northerners at preferential tariffs. Healthy passengers of the peninsula are served by two airlines: the first is responsible for helicopters, the second is an old An-3. The plane honestly tries to fly around the 21st settlement, but most often it does not get anywhere because of the snowstorms, and from April to December the weather does not allow it to go into the air. Helicopters refuse to take off, demanding money from the municipal authorities for previous flights, so people read the schedule at airports similar to crumbling stables.

There is no radio in the Far North, intercity telephone communication - by hours, sheds with television antennas serve as toilets of mongrels. However, this is no longer noticed by this that the proper -up tundra: by the spring, Taimyr gets to the angels in white robes. After waiting on March 8 and the day of the reindeer herder, a helicopter with medical detachments of narcologists and coding from alcoholism are sent to deaf villages.

A group from the capital of Taimyr -Dudinki - Speaks of Spirals and intravenously in administers the drug "Torpedo". Doctors leave, and six months later, the northerners again go into the binge. Women are the first to break. Men to the next raid of narcologists drink motor boats, all -terrain vehicles and home utensils. The only thing that is not the subject of sale on the peninsula is the house built in the 1930s. You can’t build a new hut: there is nothing to do with anything, but you won’t go to the street at –50 ° C. Although some tried: every third inhabitant of Volochanka, due to frostbite, the limbs are amputated. Many 40-year-old men move on prostheses.

In Volochanka, of 400 drinking settlers, doctors for our raid encoded 33 alcoholism from alcoholism. “Elena Dubina explains, the head of the narcological department of the Taimyr district hospital, but the drug allows you to“ torpedo ”only the examination that drank prescribed drugs, observed from the alert and provided that the patient has a good good Cardiogram ". The specialist of the brigade of doctors in one village costs the budget of 250,000 rubles. They encode people for free, despite the fact that the drugs are expensive and they are hardly distinguished.

On average, for one Russian per year, according to statistics, it accounts for up to 14 liters of alcohol (WHO considers the situation critical when the indicator is 8 liters). Adult children of the world -famous artist Motoyama Turdagin from Volochanka drink 4 bottles of fortified wine per day.

“How many?! 3 liters per nose. Wait, do not confuse me,-38-year-old Vladimir Turdagin wrinkles the forehead, recipient financial expenses of the last week, and clarifies:-If you drink the “composition” —figu for wiping lamps with a strength of 86 degrees and a volume of 0.25 liters, then at least four bubbles are needed for a day. You drink a violet glass of 250 grams - take 20 bottles at a time. Why are you taking eyebrows? We are plowing everything: “Boris Fedorovich” (glue br. - Newsweek ), iodine diluted with powder for photographs, “Lana” anti -statist, hair varnish “Charm”. When we do not walk much, we drink 6000-7000 rubles in five days in five days. For a month - 30,000–40,000. “Booking”, you can professional 160,000-200,000 per day: I sold a motor for spare parts and money. ” It is not accepted to bite at Nganasan.

From the amounts heard in line to the narcologist, there is a feeling that doctors flew to encode the lowered oligarchs. In fact, two-thirds of Volochanka lives in empty walls, without an atmosphere, from his youth to old age wears the same pants and jackets, steals everything that has a little value from the neighbors, buys products in a selmag with the amazingly accurate name “hope” for “then count”. The cash register on the counter is an emission: sellers do not see money, continuing to believe customers - if they will run away, then no further the tundra.

Of the 620 Volochantsev, only 164 have a permanent job. Previously, there was a deer economy in the village, but in the 1980s in the area they registered a case of infection with a foot and outcome-and the state farm closed. There was a sandy star farm - after perestroika went bankrupt. Now men get in the boiler room, women seek to get to the school with a cleaner or a cook in kindergarten. The wardrobes and technicians are fired once every six months for drunkenness, they take encoded on their vacancies. Exile from work run to the doctor to “torpedoed”, then they waited for their shifters to break. Sometimes women artificially accelerate the “decoding” of competitors - they are running. 11 families organized peasant farms: they hunt ducks and partridges. Due to the bird flu, Taimyr KFH may disappear.

The average salary in the village is 5,000 rubles. Plus 1500 rubles. The indigenous northerners receive monthly from the Norilskicel for the use of the natural wealth of the region. When acquaintances cease to lend money, men go hunting. Lucky - they will shoot 5-10 deer. Volochanka takes a kilogram of meat in the procurement offices of 28 rubles, in Dudinka they sell for 43. Men are trying to be encoded on the eve of the hunting season in order to leave for the tundra and return home in 3-4 months with carcasses of sheepskin, skins of arctic foxes, wems. The horns of deer are sold to poachers, they are taken to Japan - "to medicines." The proceeds are naturally drank.

The most popular drink in the villages of Ust-Avam, Potapovo and Volochanka is the Trojar baths. There is no bath in the areas, the bathrooms replace garbage for houses, they have not completed a public bath in 10 years - they can in the basins, but this circumstance does not affect the attachment of drunkards to Trojar. The head of Ust-Avam, Valentin Bogachev, has repeatedly forbidden to import technical alcohols into his village-and he referred to incorrectly designed licenses, and the fire safety of the product. But the Taimyr prosecutor’s office and the court abolished its decisions. “In the suburbs“ Troyar ”costs 17–20 rubles, and here -500,” says Bogachev. “After the removal of arrest for goods, businessmen sell it 1000 per bottle. And local alcoholics take! "

The head of the administration of Volochanka Nina Alekseenko carefully checks the trucks that come to her village in the winter road. Last year, she confiscated boxes with alcohol -containing products, closed the night warehouse - they pulled out the night. A couple of months ago, on the central street, she burned the “Trojar” seized from entrepreneurs for a million rubles - it did not help. “Knowing that I will catch containers at the entrance to the village, merchants unload alcohol in the tundra, and then on private“ burals ”are slowly transported to the houses,” Alekseenko is whispering. “The area is constantly twitching: your bathrooms are more expensive than heroin. By the way, only Russians use drugs in Taimyr, they drink indigenous peoples. When they get tired, they themselves ask: encode. The Slavs, but there are 50 of them in Volochanka, do not want to be treated. ” Indeed, we have not seen Russians among patients of our landing.

“Why beat the bottles in vain and burn?” Galina Momde, who is unsuccessfully encoded from alcoholism three times, is injected. “There are three stores in Volochanka, and all are closed for the weekend. The people do not buy alcohol for the future: how much they took from us - they still drank. Barygs sell technical spire through the windows on Saturdays and Sundays. In 2004, 9 people died in the village, in the past-15. From alcohol, well. There are no other reasons. Not only is that a rubbish from all rubbish, so wives are killing husbands by drunken husbands, men shoot each other. ” In 1996, they say, three guys, having drunk, climbed onto a military warehouse, armed themselves, took meteorologists hostages and arranged a fingertips. The district police officer caused special forces from the capital of Taimyr.

In Dudinka, a local “center of civilization”, the situation is not better: there is no work, but there are enough drunkards and their own. So there is nowhere to run from Volochanka. Some are hung in adolescence. Russians justify the mass alcoholism of northerners with Soviet education. Nganasan and Dolgans were always engaged in hunting, spending six months on Argisha (commercial points). In the 1960s, boarding schools took care of their children. The generation of 30–40-year-olds, according to the elderly, does not know how to work, take care of himself and the house, does not honor traditions.

Last year, the number of alcoholics deregistered in Taimyr narcology increased 1.6 times: it is not healed, but the dead. The incidence of alcoholism and alcohol psychoses on the peninsula exceeds Russian indicators by 1.9 times. The share of female alcoholism here changed from 17.8% in 2003 to 28.7% in 2005. Children are born with developmental disabilities. Those who did not die in infancy begin to drink at 7-8 years. The number of adolescents registered in narcology has grown 5 times. The average life expectancy in Taimyr is 42–46 years.

American Senator Joseph Biden in his last year’s report, referring to the research of demographers, predicted a reduction in the Russian population by about 50 million people in the next 50 years due to rampant alcoholism and the spread of AIDS. Residents of Taimyr villages have not heard anything about the predictions of US scientists - since February they did not receive the gas, they drank TVs under Gorbachev. But they also predict the sad final to the extreme north: "I will die out like mammoths, if we do not sober up." The Volochants themselves were so tired of drunkenness that for the last appointment to the arrived drugologists went to families: wives, brothers, sons, neighbors with them - "encode with the whole company so that there are no temptations." True, when the doctors introduced Torpedo to the younger of the Dolgan family of Chunancharov and warned that the drug was valid for a year, the guy surrendered: “I quit drinking, but now they would like to eat. Doctor, you didn’t bring a helicopter? "