In Karachaevsk, a doctor quit after an interview about working conditions during a pandemic

Leyla Batchaeva, an infectious disease specialist, quit the district hospital of Karachaevsk. Journalists attribute the dismissal to an interview with a health worker about working conditions during a pandemic. About this writes "Kavkaz. Realities".

We are talking about the material of the publication “In the diagnosis, by decree of the leadership, they wrote “pneumonia””. In it, Batchaeva talks about the lack of staff, the lack of medical supplies, sealed suits, and the purchase of instruments for analysis at the expense of doctors.

"Caucasus. Realii, citing a source in the hospital, clarifies that Batchaeva was forced to resign.

The publication quotes the position of the press service of the Ministry of Health of Karachay-Cherkessia regarding the dismissal of an infectious disease specialist and another employee of the hospital: “Now we have less than four hundred patients being treated. Why keep doctors? We will treat until the last patient. There is also a reserve hospital in Ust-Dzhegut, but it makes no sense to open it. Like the rest of the country, we are in a recession. Physicians were involved from other medical organizations or from other regions. We don't harm anyone!"

• In June 2020, employees of the hospital in Karachaevsk reported pressure after the publication of an interview with journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky about working conditions during the spread of the coronavirus. According to the journalist, the heroes of his materials are threatened with dismissal.
• In June, the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a criminal case under the article on fakes (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code) on Instagram channels. We are talking about the publications of the Black Cube and Politika 09 channels. According to the investigatory committee, fake information was posted there “under the guise of reliable reports” about “the circumstances of the spread of the coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the territory of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and the measures taken to ensure the safety of the population.”