On April 30, the Volunteers to Help Orphans charity foundation begins the second course for foster parents, “Children with Disabilities.” It will be held as part of the free School of Adoptive Parents . The course is aimed at families who are raising a child with special needs or are planning to have one.

The “Need Help” Foundation has begun collecting funds to pay for the work of professional nannies who will care for orphans in hospitals in Novosibirsk and Bashkiria. This is a project of the Solar City Foundation, which has been involved in the prevention of social orphanhood since 2007. Doctors and nurses often do not have time to pay more attention to orphans lying alone in the hospital. Boarding schools and orphanages also cannot send a teacher with the child.

An HIV dissident died in the Irkutsk region because she did not take ARV therapy and did not allow her infected daughter to be treated. She died at the end of winter, but doctors only recently received the results of detailed examinations. The cause of death of the 32-year-old patient was “bilateral total Pneumocystis pneumonia, complicated by intoxication and severe respiratory failure,” according to the conclusion received by the Irkutsk Regional AIDS Center.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on abuse of power by employees of Colony No. 3 in the city of Lgov, Kursk Region, who beat prisoners to the tune of a nursery rhyme. This was reported by the human rights foundation “Public Verdict”. A case of abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) was initiated against unidentified persons. We are talking about torture of prisoners that took place in August 2017.

A database with information about 120 thousand refusenik clients of the Central Bank was published on one of the specialized forums, Kommersant reports . The data of individuals, individual entrepreneurs and legal entities who were denied service on the basis of Federal Law No. 115-FZ “On Combating the Legalization (Laundering) of Proceeds from Crime and the Financing of Terrorism” has become publicly available.

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Property and Land Relations, Vasily Vlasov, sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev with a proposal to ban the use of plastic bags in the country from 2025. RIA Novosti reports this.

In Kaliningrad, several employees of the Baucenter retail chain went on a hunger strike to get a prosecutor to check their working conditions. According to the New Kaliningrad portal, workers Mikhail Suraev and Artem Troyan handed over an official statement to the management of Baucenter RUS LLC that since April 9 they have declared an indefinite hunger strike. On April 11, they were joined by another company employee, Kirill Katrich.

A 66-year-old pensioner from the Shelekhovsky district transferred 3.8 million rubles to a fraudster who introduced himself as a “white magician,” reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Irkutsk Region. As KP-Irkutsk clarifies , the woman hoped to cure her son-in-law of alcohol addiction. As the pensioner said, her son-in-law has been abusing alcohol for many years.

In Krasnoyarsk, surgeons at Hospital No. 20 removed a tumor in the abdominal cavity weighing more than 10 kilograms from an 80-year-old patient. This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Health. The pensioner developed pain in her left side after an unsuccessful fall, and a few months later a tumor began to be felt. The woman turned to doctors, who diagnosed a tumor that was rapidly growing in size.

In fact, all financial assets and savings in Russia are concentrated in the hands of the richest 3% of citizens. Analysts from the Higher School of Economics and the Institute for Research and Expertise of Vnesheconombank came to this conclusion. In 2018, the richest 3% of Russians accounted for 89% of all financial assets, 92% of time deposits and 89% of cash savings, Kommersant writes . The poorest 20% are 6%, 4% and 3% respectively.

A teenager suspected of setting fire to the 18th-century Assumption Church in Kondopoga was sent for treatment, Karelia Children's Ombudsman Gennady Saraev told TASS. According to Saraev, the minor underwent a court-ordered psychiatric examination and is now receiving full assistance in accordance with medical indications. The Ombudsman refused to provide details, citing confidentiality of information.

The Investigative Committee for Buryatia began an inspection of the Barguzin Central District Hospital, where a patient died in a locked utility room. The head of the republic ordered the dismissal of the head physician of the medical institution. On April 5, the relatives of a 40-year-old man who died in early February in the Central District Hospital filed a statement with investigators, the Investigative Committee reported . The patient was hospitalized with moderate pneumonia.

The Investigative Committee supported the medical community, which opposed real imprisonment for doctors for unintentional errors. A joint group of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the National Medical Chamber is developing changes to Article 124.1 of the Criminal Code (improper provision of medical care), which provides punishment for medical errors.

The editors of Novaya Gazeta filed a lawsuit against the Federal Penitentiary Service because the department, without explanation, refused to allow the publication's journalist Elizaveta Kirpanova to meet with the convicted former mayor of Yaroslavl, Evgeny Urlashov.

In Russia, it is necessary to introduce an electronic vaccination system similar to the one that exists in European countries. This was stated by the chief freelance epidemiologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Briko, at a round table on the problems of refusing vaccinations. As RIA Novosti reports , Briko noted that parents often do not know that their child needs to be vaccinated, so they wait for a doctor’s appointment.