"Passing" death

Where is the truth, who is to blame and who in this story is sorry - the victim or doctors? Upon closer examination, it turns out that everyone is to blame. And everyone is sorry

A man with a bloodied head, in a torn T -shirt and with numerous tattoos, swaying, leaves the hospital ward and immediately falls. A nurse calmly passes by him and leaves for another room, a nurse is sleeping in the distance on the couch. The man tries to rise, falls again and again, his head on the tile, blood appears on the floor. People go by in a medical uniform. The victim will fall two more times, fall to the wall, try to get to his feet, fall from his own height and calms down. There are now three medical workers next to him, one puts on gloves and shakes his shoulder, then flutters on his cheek, then examines the wound on his head and squeamishly wipes his hand on the patient's hair. Around the head, a puddle of blood gradually flows. Doctors curse a little among themselves, girls take a person by the legs and try to drag him on the floor, blood is smeared after their movement.

The nurse continues to sleep.

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This video has hundreds of thousands of views on the Internet, it is twisted for almost a week through federal channels. The title at the “first”: “Investigators in Smolensk are dealing with a scandalous case in the city hospital where the patient died,” “Moscow 24”: “In relation to the patients who left the patient, a check began from Smolensk”. The discussion about the death of a person in the Red Cross, the Smolensk clinical hospital of ambulance, is difficult to retell censorship. “Killer doctors”, “let these drunks completely rest”, “And if so with you?”, “I was lying with a homeless person in the ward, let them not take them from the street”-and further on the calls for mass executions. Only some would like to shoot doctors, while others would like alcoholics and homeless people.

“They recorded in the map -“ Unknown ”,” Galina Mikhailova speaks tensely and quietly, you have to listen specially. - And then it was picked up on the Internet. Those who write that he is a homeless and drunken, could at least look at him at the sneakers, they cost seven or ten thousand, I don’t remember now.

Galina is a person’s sister with a video. He was called Sergey Ivanov, he was 47 years old, he entered the hospital on the night of June 11, allegedly after a fight in a cafe, after a while he fell into a coma and died on June 23, 2017. The video appeared in the public domain recently, before that Galina went to the Investigative Committee with an entry, but the audit showed that "in this situation, facts indicating an event of a crime provided for part 24" Porving to the patient "were not established."

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Sergey Ivanov Photo: From Personal Archive

Now there is a second check. We meet with Galina and her husband just near the building of the Smolensk Investigative Committee. According to Galina, the new investigator believes that the crime nevertheless took place.

“The brother went to the hospital after a fight,” the woman says. - We just tried to find out all the circumstances, I did not expect to see that they were treating him so much. The bartender from the institution where everything happened said that they called an ambulance at half -past five in the evening and she arrived quickly. When I saw in a hospital extract that he entered at 4:30 in the morning, I was wondering where he was driving for so many hours!

The woman wrote a statement to the hospital so that she was given access to the recordings of internal video cameras, get permission and sat in a tight room with the guard. When she saw what was happening to her brother, Galina asked permission to rewrite a record for herself. The guard allowed, but while Galina ran to buy a flash drive, he changed his mind, saying that this was needed for a separate signature of the head doctor. However, Galina received her.

- The head physician Vladimir Zhuravlev said that in the hospital his brother behaved aggressively, refused hospitalization and left. Allegedly, later he was brought by passers -by and Seryozha had a bottle of vodka in his pocket, ”Galina says indignantly. - But the video shows that he was all the time in the room where they put him, that not a single doctor approached him, that he had not been treated for the wound in any way.

After a pause, she continues very quietly: “And they didn’t even wash away the blood ... They didn’t even an iodine ... even iodine!”

Galina, sister Sergei Ivanova Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Sergey’s sister claims that, besides this video, there were four more offices, which proved that the man did not leave the hospital building. She rewrote them too, but it was impossible to see them at home, the videos were “beaten”, with black and white interference.

There were four more videos from the offices, which proved that the man did not leave the building of the hospital

Birthday

- When he was brought, he spoke his name, surname, year of birth. He did not take any aggressive actions, he did not take his hands with his hands, ”Galina continues. - In the hospital, they say that the recording is video editing, that he was inadequate, and this is not true. That is - a lie.

She says that Sergey’s tattoos remained from the “Zon” times - a 19 of the age of 47 spent in places of imprisonment. Galina is unpleasant for this topic, and she does not tell her brother: “At 16, the motorcycle stole with friends to ride, and then it went ...” To the question, for what were the rest of the deadlines, she answers: “Do you really think that it matters? He was not an angel, and it was all in his life, but for the past five years he led an absolutely healthy lifestyle, did not drink alcohol, did not drink drugs, did not even eat sugar and salt, swayed. ” According to Galina, after the release, he could not get to work officially, he was biased at construction sites.

Territory of the hospital "Red Cross" Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

On June of June, Sergey had a birthday. The whole family lived nearby, but two houses - Galina and his family and Sergey with her mother. They were preparing to celebrate: they bought meat for barbecue, gifts.

- Mom comes in the morning, I tell her - with the birthday man, Mommy! - says Galina. -And she says that the birthday man is not, she did not spend the night. We began to search right away, because there was no such thing that he did not call and did not warn that he would not be at home.

Mother Sergey called at ten in the evening of June 11. He said that he had met an old friend, he would sit with him a little and go home. At ten thirty, a woman began to dial the number of her son again, but he did not answer. Now Sergey’s mother clicks a remote control when a video with the death of her son is shown on the next channel. She tried, but could not make herself see him.

Place

The fight, where Sergey was injured, occurred in the Hops cafe on the collective farm square. From it, the ancient walls of the Smolensk Kremlin and the main cathedral of the city are clearly visible from it, this is its very center, but the place is not tourist. The clothing market, a bunch of stalls, grannies sell apples and socks, young people with a running look-phones and SIM cards. Noisy, dirty, at noon already a lot of tipsy people. One sits on the ground and shakes his head, concentrated people with purchases pass by.

On the sign of the "hops" it is written "pub", but with this word a cafe is difficult to proceed. Inside the walls, a wooden board, playing the role of the table, hangs on the walls, the signs hang on the walls: “We reserve the right to drive customers in an inadequate state” and “Vodka without beer - money right away”. Behind a wooden stand there are a lot of cranes with beer and sports view of the bartender in the cap and with a thick chain on the neck talks on the phone, two more drink. A small queue is formed behind us: a bright blonde with a hangover man cannot choose a beer variety, behind them there is an elderly person with a hundred rubles and the phrase “I am as usual”. We are strangers, and the bartender does not want to talk to us.

The Hops beer bar, in which Sergey was before the photo came to the hospital: Anna Ivansova for TD

- I will argue for anything that you have a recorder in your pocket there! I will say, you still write how they tell you!

- Who will say?

“Well, these are like them,” the bartender twists his hands in the air, “controlling organs!” Today they came again, interrogated, wrote, signed, all this muttenn. Hey, don’t take off, we don’t need advertising!

It turns out to be incomprehensible with a fight. According to Galina, the bartender, who worked that evening, first said that Sergey was not an instigator, stood on the sidelines and even seemed to say: “If only I couldn’t get away, if only not to climb”, and then he was hit on the head and jumped on the lying body. But a little later, the investigators said the same bartender that there was no fight at all, and the two strongly drinking friends fell from the porch. Sergey’s injuries - a fracture of the arch and the base of the skull, a fracture of the facial bones, a fracture of the nose, a fracture of the elbow joint, mutilated bones of the pelvis - rather indicate in favor of the first version.

I ask the bartender, are there often fights, what they do in this case - stop, expel, call the police? “What kind of police,” he is giving. - We drive out the street and watch how they **** [ fight. - "TD" ], we make bets. " A couple at the table also laughs and orders another beer.

“You are not local and do not shit in our affairs,” adds the bartender. - This man is a drug addict, a recidivist, he was sitting for the distribution of drugs, his whole city knows.

I ask what drugs Sergey used; One of the men says: “Yes, he was sitting on the needle, I myself have been on the heroine for seven years, what am I, I don’t know?!” By the appearance of a man, it is not very clear whether he jokes or not, his comrade twists a small butterfly knife in his hands, but, noticing my gaze, hides him in his pocket.

The bartender says that he still considers it important to punish doctors. “It doesn't matter here, he is a drunk or a drug addict, right? This ... Hippocratic oath: they said to help - help, ”he says. “But I believe that his fate killed, not doctors.” The man chose such a fate for himself! "

I tell you that, according to my sister, Sergey has not drank for several years - this causes a new explosion of laughter.

- You look! - The bartender circles a small room with a wide gesture. -How do you think you come to drink here or how to read books in the library?

Red Cross

The Smolensk hospital, which all the locals call the Red Cross, built in 1897, this is an eclectic collection of buildings from the maternity ward in the old Russian style to the gloomy brick buildings of the sixties connected by crossings. We are allowed into the administrative building without listening to the purpose of the visit. The assistant to the head physician calls the “girls”, complains that the boss is on the departure, and puts Kronstofik on the couch in front of the Nachmed Cabinet. The deputy chief physician for the medical part is busy - she is trying to find free elastic bandages for an elderly woman sitting next to us.

“Galya, well, this is Olga Pavlovna,” comes from the open door of the office. -Well, let's look for something, we will not accept it without bandages, there is nothing to buy for her.

Hospital "Red Cross"; Reception department; Entrance to the reception department of the hospital photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

The bandages are located, the doctor asks: "Are you to me?" “And he puts us into the office.” The expression on the word “journalists” does not change in any way, she immediately begins to tell in a monotonous voice:

- He entered us in a state of strong alcohol intoxication, beaten. He was examined by the neurosurgeon attendant, he did not find injuries, but, given his condition, he was put in ... I do not want to say the word “sump”, we have such a small chamber so that such people are sleeping, so that then you can make an MRI or CT.

A little later we will go to this ward - a tiny ascetic room, soaked in the smells of alcohol, urine and excrement. According to doctors, 60% of those who enter the reception of “injuries” are very drunk.

Hospital version-he left somewhere and returned even more drunk and bloodied

“We could not immediately conduct any examination, because it was impossible to put it so violent under a tomograph,” says Nadezhda. - These patients turn out the sinks in our country, break the couchs, see the grille on the window? She was torn with the root.

According to the bracket, then the medical staff was distracted by the people who came from the scene of the accident, and when he returned, Ivanov was gone. The version of the hospital-he left somewhere and returned even more drunk and bloodied.

“Medbrat took him to the ward and seemed to have to call the doctor because the injury was obvious,” the doctor says in a tired voice. - Only we have one neurosurgeon for all departments. Do you know what a neurosurgeon is? They all have been studying for many years, and then they want to do difficult interesting operations, and not this in the reception room, to sew desocialized people who spit on you, pissing, swearing ... Yes, perhaps the surgeon did not come up immediately, this is our reality, it cannot multiply.

Reception department of the hospital "Red Cross" Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

The fact that people act simultaneously with head injuries and alcohol intoxication greatly complicates the diagnosis. Fuzzy movements, inadequate behavior, drowsiness and everything else - the clinic is the same. At the same time, doctors cannot send such patients to the center of detoxification from the trauma department, because the main diagnosis has not been removed, the severity of the injury is not determined. In the case of a criminal injury, you need to send the telephone message to the police - according to the bracket, they did so - and take blood for alcohol. Only from Sergey they did not take a blood test supposedly due to completely sclerotic veins. She tells how a subclavian catheter was specifically put in intensive care - in the veins on his legs, arms and groin, the needle simply did not enter.

Final

“I do not justify my employees, believe me,” says the bracket. - I believe that it was possible to get drunk, to do everything more decent. We did not violate the rules for the provision of medical care, as for deontology ...

Nadezhda Kronstofic is conceived. Deontology is the doctrine of moral and moral problems, a special ethics section. Medical deontology is taught at medical universities in Russia, somewhere in the form of a special course, somewhere in a separate watch aware of general philosophy. It is assumed that future doctors are taught the right relationship with colleagues and patients. All medical workers on the video are students of the Smolensk Medical Academy, they have the right to work in the hospital, because there are not enough staff.

“As for deontology,” the doctor says, “I think that we have destroyed its great weight.” He weighs ... weighed more than a hundred kilograms, the girls simply could not raise it, drag him to a gurney, and physically could not. Yes, personally, in their place, I would at least stay by the patient by the hand, but I grew up and began to work at another time. We are different. People are all different. I am sorry that we do not have a crowd outside the gate, dreaming of working in these conditions, when all the time blood, dirt and meat grinder.

Hospital "Red Cross" Photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Nadezhda Kronstofic leads us along long hospital transitions, now and then greeting our colleagues and patients, shows how wheelchairs and gurnets look like. They are exactly the same as in any Russian hospital: non -casual, oilcloth, with inventory numbers, one severely settled on the right wheel and leaned against the wall. The bracket says that twenty -seven minutes of delay, which were fixed on the film, did not affect the finals. “He did not die in our department, the next day he woke up, sat on the bed, even sent a doctor in his mother,” she says. - Unfortunately, two days later the patient began to deteriorate. He was operated on, removed hematoma, but this did not help. If he had received this injury on the street, an ambulance could go to him as much. ”

It was Nadezhda Kronstofic that ordered the video to give the video to the family of Sergei Ivanov to help understand when the man was brought to the hospital. Street Med says she had “thoughts” that there may be something wrong on the recording. “If we suspected something like that, we would try to hide it, right? - For the first time in the conversation, the woman smiles. “But we acted honestly, we gave everything to the family, we condole.”

"We acted honestly, we gave everything to the family, we condo"

Nurses and nurses who are on the video continue to work in the reception department. The salary of the orderly - about 14 thousand rubles, nurses - about 20, the only neurosurgeon working in the reception and in the neurosurgical department receives 31 thousand 810 rubles and often talks about leaving and moving to the capital.

Nadezhda Kronstofic with a heavy gait returns to the office. In parting, he tells us: “There is no need to think that medicine is something exclusive in our state, compared with the general state of morals.” Near her office there is already a turn of a dozen visitors.

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