The anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the city hospital N20 of Rostov-on-Don Artur Toporov, who spoke about patients with COVID-19 who died due to lack of oxygen, quit. He announced the dismissal to the portal 161.ru.

According to Toporov, he quit himself. After publications about the situation in City Hospital No. 20, “he had no problems in the hospital,” writes 161.ru.

“The statement was written of his own free will,” Toporov told Interfax. “I think that one way or another, everyone understands everything.”

At the end of October 2020, the Investigative Committee of the Rostov Region opened a case into the death of five people with COVID-19 in hospital No. 20 in Rostov-on-Don. The estimated causes of death of patients in the UK were not named.
Portal 161.ru was the first to report that 13 people died in hospital No. 20 due to interruptions in oxygen on October 12. Artur Toporov on the night of October 12 was the doctor on duty, 161.ru published his story about what was happening in the hospital.
The administration of Rostov-on-Don called "information about the number of dead patients and the causes of their death" untrue . The head of the city health department claimed that there were no problems with the supply of oxygen to the hospital .
A week after the publication of the death of patients, the head of the Rostov-on-Don Health Department was fired, and the Minister of Health of the Rostov Region retired .

The doctor who spoke about the lack of oxygen for patients with COVID-19 in Rostov-on-Don resigned