Post by Jaga on May 7, 2020 5:19:23 GMT -7
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MOSCOW — The two Russian paramedics were dressed for work in the video, masks covering their noses and mouths as they delivered a grim dispatch.
The narrator identified himself as Alexander Kosyakin and his colleague as Alexander Shulepov. Shulepov had just learned that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, Kosyakin said, yet “the head doctor forces us to continue working, and what can we do in the situation?”
“We haven’t been released from our shift,” Shulepov said. Both work in Voronezh, about 300 miles south of Moscow.
In a second video released days later by the press secretary of the regional health department, Shulepov backed off those comments, saying that he had been “emotional” and that his boss did eventually tell him to stop working.
Shulepov was admitted to the hospital, and it was there on May 1 that he fell from a second-floor window in what local authorities have called an accident.
Shulepov, who is in critical condition with a skull fracture, is the third Russian medical professional in two weeks to mysteriously fall from a hospital window. The other two died.
A week before Shulepov’s fall, Natalya Lebedeva, who ran an ambulance station at a cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, fell to her death from a window at the hospital where she was being treated for suspected covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The next day, Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, the head of a hospital in Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, fell from the window of her fifth-floor office, reportedly right after she had a conference call with regional health officials.
Nepomnyashchaya was allegedly opposed to converting a ward in the hospital to house coronavirus patients because of a shortage of trained personnel and protective equipment, according to a local news report that cited anonymous sources. Krasnoyarsk health officials denied that the conference call took place.
MOSCOW — The two Russian paramedics were dressed for work in the video, masks covering their noses and mouths as they delivered a grim dispatch.
The narrator identified himself as Alexander Kosyakin and his colleague as Alexander Shulepov. Shulepov had just learned that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, Kosyakin said, yet “the head doctor forces us to continue working, and what can we do in the situation?”
“We haven’t been released from our shift,” Shulepov said. Both work in Voronezh, about 300 miles south of Moscow.
In a second video released days later by the press secretary of the regional health department, Shulepov backed off those comments, saying that he had been “emotional” and that his boss did eventually tell him to stop working.
Shulepov was admitted to the hospital, and it was there on May 1 that he fell from a second-floor window in what local authorities have called an accident.
Shulepov, who is in critical condition with a skull fracture, is the third Russian medical professional in two weeks to mysteriously fall from a hospital window. The other two died.
A week before Shulepov’s fall, Natalya Lebedeva, who ran an ambulance station at a cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, fell to her death from a window at the hospital where she was being treated for suspected covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The next day, Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, the head of a hospital in Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, fell from the window of her fifth-floor office, reportedly right after she had a conference call with regional health officials.
Nepomnyashchaya was allegedly opposed to converting a ward in the hospital to house coronavirus patients because of a shortage of trained personnel and protective equipment, according to a local news report that cited anonymous sources. Krasnoyarsk health officials denied that the conference call took place.
