▲ Russian medical staff treating Corona19 patients


Three doctors protesting how the Russian authorities responded to the Corona19 response in the past two weeks have resulted in a crash in the window of the hospital, two killed and one serious, according to the US CNN and The New York Times (NYT).

According to CNN, on the 24th of last month, Natalia Lebedeva, head of an emergency medical facility in Star City near Moscow, known as the astronaut city, crashed from a hospital window.

In a statement, the hospital stated that Lebedeva was being treated for suspected corona19 symptoms, but did not provide further details.

On the 1st of this month, Elena Nepomenischaya, the director of a hospital in Krasnoyarsk, died.

He had been treated in an intensive care unit after falling from the hospital window on the 26th of last month, but he could not be revived.

According to local broadcasts, Nepomenischaya crashed through a window during a meeting with local health officials over the issue of converting a hospital facility into a Corona 19 treatment center.

Nepommenaschaya was reportedly opposed to switching hospitals to Corona 19 treatment centers for lack of protective equipment, but health officials denied the allegations in a statement.

On the 2nd of this month, Alexander Schlepov, of the emergency of Novosmanskaya Hospital in Voronezh, is also in critical condition after falling off the window on the second floor of the hospital.

According to a local broadcaster, Schlepov has been positive for Corona19 and has been in hospital at the hospital since 22nd of last month.

In a video posted on the Internet on the day he was hospitalized, Schlepov claimed that he was forced to continue working at the hospital even after he had Corona 19.

"My last conversation with Schlepov on the 30th of last month was preparing for discharge," said Schlepov's colleague. "But it happened suddenly. It's so unclear why and why."

In a statement, Novosmanskaya hospital refuted his claim that Schlepov was excluded from hospital work as soon as he was confirmed, and three days later Schlepov released a video saying "I was overwhelmed with emotion".

NYT reported that local media reported that all three doctors who challenged the Russian health authorities' response to Corona19 had fallen from the upper windows of the hospital.

"Some reported that their fall was a suicide or accident," he added.

"The crash occurred while the police were cracking down on doctors who had publicly criticized the government's response to corona19," said NYT. "So far, Russian dissidents have argued that the government is behind accidents such as the fall of a questionable balcony." I wrote.

According to the U.S. Johns Hopkins University, the number of corona19 confirmed in Russia today is 145,000, the 7th largest in the world.

The death toll was 1,356. 

(Photo = AFP, Yonhap News)