A hospital doctor in Makhachkala, who insulted a nursing mother and refused to provide medical care to her child, has been temporarily suspended from work, the Russian Ministry of Health told TD. A video of a scandal involving a doctor who yelled at a child’s mother for breastfeeding him was posted on YouTube a few days ago. “A hospital employee in the city of Makhachkala, who insulted a nursing mother and refused to provide medical care to the child, was reprimanded.

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Siberian State Medical University reported on the development of a system for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases based on virtual reality technologies. As Sib.fm writes , the diagnostic system looks like this - augmented reality glasses, a contactless motion sensor and a moving platform. Scientists use glasses from Google and a Kinect touch controller.

Many pregnant women do not know why the doctor prescribes folic acid to them all. A defect in the formation of the fetal nervous tube, Spina Bifida, Myelomeningocele, D's hernia of the spinal cord-every year and a half or two thousand children patients with this disease are born in Russia. Everyone has problems with the bladder, every second one does not feel the legs, every fifth is paralyzed and has a huge head. Very often, parents refuse children with Spina Bifida.

The number of Russians with mental disorders is growing every year. Often, people in psychiatric hospitals are kept for years, and their fate depends only on the attending physician. TD correspondent Anton Kravtsov spent two weeks in a psychiatric hospital Breakfast is a smoke “It is very easy to get to a psychiatric hospital. It is enough to drink too much and show aggression. Someone is convinced that the condition is inadequate. Then the ambulance car. Further is the work of technology.

One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica, Larsen C, whose area is 55 thousand square meters, has cracked. This was reported on the website of the British research project MIDAS. Geophysicists said that a crack in the glacier, discovered back in 2010, began to grow rapidly. From March to August 2016, the split increased by 22 kilometers. Now the length of the crack is about 60 kilometers with a width of approximately 350 meters.

Several schools and gymnasiums in Yekaterinburg decided to join the “Children instead of flowers” ​​campaign, writes E1. Students will give flowers only to the class teacher, and an amount equal to the purchase of the remaining bouquets will be transferred to the palliative care center of Central City Hospital No. 2. Students from gymnasium No. 210 “Corypheus” joined the action. A donation box will be installed in the lobby of the institution on September 1.

The Ministry of Education and Science plans to present recommendations for schools on conducting lessons on tolerance towards people with disabilities by the end of the year, the Izvestia newspaper writes . “Lessons in Kindness” will be held as part of the “Accessible Environment” program. The classes are designed to develop tolerance and respect for people with disabilities among schoolchildren from the first to the 11th grade.

Rio Olympic medalist Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski sold his silver medal to pay for the treatment of a child with cancer. The athlete wrote about this on his Facebook page. Malakhovsky put his award up for auction after the mother of a three-year-old boy who had a malignant tumor of the retina contacted him. About 120 thousand dollars were needed to treat the child. The auction was announced on August 21.

24 August 2016, 16:57 The Ministry of Health has announced a competition to inform people about organ donation for transplantation. RIA Novosti reports this. The competition documentation provides for “the creation and placement of information materials on the topic of donation in leading media.” The Ministry of Health intends to increase the level of awareness of Russians on donation issues and motivate them to donate free of charge.

The Novosibirsk paragliding club "Vector" together with the "Protect Life" foundation held a charity event for children who have survived cancer. Sib.fm reports this. As part of the event, four wards of the foundation prepared for a paragliding flight, and then performed it together with an instructor. The children were also told about the features of paragliding. The foundation believes that such events help children gain self-confidence after a serious illness, as well as gain new experiences.

The press service of Greenpeace Russia reported that in Yamal the authorities are hindering the activities of the environmental expedition. Greenpeace experts planned to analyze the consequences of climate change in Yamal, which are associated with the anthrax outbreak.

A pensioner from the Ural city of Polevsky issued payments in two regions of the country. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region. During the investigation, prosecutors found out that the man had been receiving a pension for several years in the Sverdlovsk region and the Khanty-Mansk Autonomous Okrug at the same time. The prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit to recover from the pensioner an "extra" pension in the amount of more than 746 rubles.

In Ulan-Ude, drivers of several route buses caught up with the culprit of the accident, who hit a 13-year-old girl, RIA Novosti reports . The accident occurred on the evening of August 23 on Oktyabrskaya Street. The girl was crossing the green light when a car flew onto the road at high speed. The girl was thrown forcefully to the side of the road, and the culprit of the accident tried to escape from the scene, leaving the child to die.

The court closed the psychoneurological boarding school in Cheremkhovo for 30 days, where the pupils contracted an intestinal infection. TASS reports this.

In Transbaikalia, an unknown person donated more than 13 million rubles for the treatment of a boy with juvenile malignant osteopetrosis. This was reported by Orthodoxy and Peace with reference to the Artemka charity foundation. Sanzhi Zagdaev was diagnosed with juvenile malignant osteopetrosis (or marble disease) in May. The boy needs an operation in Israel worth 20 million rubles.