A nurse and an orderly were fired from a Perm hospital after failing to provide assistance to a cancer patient

In Perm, a nurse and an emergency room attendant were dismissed from medical unit No. 9, who did not begin to provide assistance to a patient with cancer.

According to the message of the Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory, the women were fired because on the night of October 16 they were at the workplace in a state of intoxication.

Earlier, in the group “My City — Perm” on VKontakte, a record appeared with a story of a local resident that the staff of the medical unit number 9, where her cancer patient husband was brought by ambulance on the night of October 16, were drunk and did not provide medical treatment for four hours. help him. According to her, the nurse “tried to put a drip”, but could not get into the vein, resulting in “a huge bump formed on the arm.”

“When I arrived at the hospital to pick him up, when I entered the medical staff’s room, I saw that they were all asleep drunk, including the young doctor girl,” the text says. The woman began filming what was happening on video, after which the doctor "immediately fled." In one of the clips attached to the post, an employee of the medical unit tells her: “Your husband is sick, there is nothing you can do to help him.”

The Vkurs.ru website writes, citing the patient’s daughter, that after the incident, the man was “put in a paid ward for free,” and the medical unit’s management apologized to him.