The Doctors' Alliance prepared a letter to the new Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko asking him to look into the situation at the Blokhin Cancer Center after the mass dismissal of specialists. The Alliance of Doctors reported this to “Such Affairs”; the letter is at the disposal of the editors. As the Alliance of Doctors said, four doctors helped them in preparing the letter, among them former and retired employees of the National Medical Research Center of Oncology. Blokhina.

A three-day-old seal was rescued in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg. Representatives of the Friends of the Baltic Seal Foundation spoke about this. The animal, which was crawling along the ice towards the shore, was discovered by employees of the Baltiets yacht club. While the fund's employees were driving, the animal covered about 300 meters on the ice and ended up on the shore. Experts noted that the seal could have been lost during a storm that happened three days ago.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that the Kirov nurse who allegedly disconnected veterans from the ventilator in the hospital passed a lie detector test. All accusations against him were refuted, Interfax reports . “Kirov colleagues [carried out an inspection] to the point of raising all the documentation. Our colleague, a medical worker, was put through a lie detector.

In the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court, the jury acquitted 23-year-old Alexander Radtsev, accused of murdering his 90-year-old great-grandmother out of a desire to end her torment. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to investigators, on April 17, 2018, the guy killed his great-grandmother, thus trying to alleviate her fate and the fate of the relative caring for her.

In Moscow, the police disrupted an event for the separate collection of recyclable materials. The head of the “Separate Collection” movement in the Moscow region, Valeria Korosteleva, told “Takim Dela” about this. According to Korosteleva, the action took place on Vernadsky Avenue and was agreed upon with the district government.

Residents of St. Petersburg who returned from China complained of forced hospitalization in the Botkin hospital for 14 days to be tested for coronavirus, Fontanka reports . Doctors refer to a new resolution of Rospotrebnadzor, failure to comply with which threatens with administrative consequences. Fontanka told the stories of four residents of St. Petersburg who ended up in special isolated wards at the Botkin Hospital.

The head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, said that every year 70 thousand Russians die due to the unprofessionalism of doctors, Interfax reports . Murashko gave several examples of fatal medical errors. Thus, he stated that at least 25 people die a year from the use of lidocaine, and at least 1-2 people die from the improper use of ambulance gurneys. Murashko also cited as an example a video he saw from a maternity hospital, where doctors provided emergency care to a newborn.