| In Primorye, the dead were treated with psychotropic drugs Five criminal cases were initiated by the Primorye department of the Federal Service for Control of Narcotic Drugs (FSN) on the facts of violations in local healthcare institutions. The main defendants in two of them are the Vladivostok ambulance station and the 1st regional clinical hospital. Serious violations were identified during the storage and disposal of psychotropic drugs.
During the audits, drug police discovered many facts of the disappearance without a trace of psychotropics, similar in their effects to drugs. These drugs are used in intensive care units for anesthesia and pain relief and are subject to strict accounting. However, doctors in the intensive care unit of a regional hospital wrote off the drugs as administered to patients who had actually died long ago. Similar violations were detected at the ambulance station.
So far the names of specific suspects have not been announced. The fate of the decommissioned psychotropic drug hydroxybutyrate is also unknown. According to the main version of FSN employees, it was illegally sold to local drug dealers. Investigators are now checking thousands of patient records at the clinic, trying to trace the fate of every box of ampoules received at the warehouse. Despite the fact that the doctors have not yet been charged, the first personnel changes are already taking place. The head physician of the regional clinical hospital No. 1, Valery Lokhov, has already gone on vacation with subsequent dismissal.
“Since last fall, we have been inspecting all medical institutions in the region. Hospitals are a place where drugs intended for treatment can be transferred from legal to illegal circulation,” said Igor Kozyura, a representative of the FSN department for the Primorsky Territory. He says that until the end of the audit, the details of the investigation will not be released to the press, but confirms that the head physician of the hospital has already been issued an order regarding serious violations.
Meanwhile, Valery Lokhov’s colleagues are perplexed by his removal from office. “He is a real manager and managed to organize the work and unite the team in such a way that the doctors did not think about sheets and pots, but saved people every day,” says Grigory Smirnov, chief resuscitator-anesthesiologist of the Primorsky Territory. According to him, the criminal case regarding the disappearance of psychotropic drugs from the clinic is nothing more than a misunderstanding. Dmitry CHERNOV, Vladivostok |
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