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Old Russa: Doctors asked residents to protect from coronavirus
Doctors of the Old Russian Central Hospital asked the city residents to raise money for them to buy protection funds when working with coronavirus patients. About this in VKontakte was written by a paramedic and member of the Trade Union of Doctors of Doctors Yuri Boyko.
According to him, the hospital was not prepared to receive patients with Covid-19: there were no respirators, glasses and anti-ficcum costs. Because of this, 16 employees of the institution were transferred to quarantine. Doctors turned to the leadership of the hospital and asked to provide them with means of protection.
“Unfortunately, our leadership so far denies the presence of coronavirus in old Russa, or claims that all the necessary means of protection are present, under such means of protection they mean gauze masks, which they forced to sew the medical personnel of the Old Russian Central District Hospital,” Boyko wrote.
The paramedic said that the medical staff decided not to waste time "on conflict with the leadership" and ask residents to raise money to buy protection.
"About 800 medical personnel employees operate in the Old Russian Central District Hospital. One respiratory mask costs 600 rubles, glasses cost 205 rubles. In our small and a friendly, humane and responsive city and the district, about 36,000 thousand people live if each of us is now making a donation even in the amount of 10 rubles, then we will be able to purchase at least a minimum set for the protection of the old -Russian Central District Hospital", then we will - calculated Boykov.
North Realia could not get an operational comment in the central hospital. The Ministry of Health of the Novgorod Region reported that they did not know about the lack of protective equipment at the old Russa hospital.
“We have a monitoring of protection and chief doors from the districts every day from the districts what has in warehouses and what is the need. At the moment, they do not experience any difficulties, the protective equipment is available and issued at the request of the employees,” the representative said.
The Trade Union "Alliance of Doctors" brought masks, gloves and respirators for doctors of district hospitals to the Novgorod region, including for the Old Russian Central District Hospital. But the police stopped the column of the trade union, its leader was detained and fined for the disobedience of the police. The funds were nevertheless managed to transfer to doctors, but they were forbidden to use them.
In the Novgorod region, 26 cases of coronavirus were confirmed , according to official figures, not one of them is registered in the Old Russian district.