POC: inmates of the women's detention center in Moscow complain about the poor quality of medical care

Doctor Yuliana Ivanova, arrested in the case of trafficking in surrogate babies, complains of weight loss, hearing impairment and severe back pain, which is why she is forced to take pain medications.

According to her, since the beginning of August, she has been unable to obtain an examination.

“They don’t do a blood test, an X-ray, or an ultrasound machine,” said one of the POC members.

He also added that prison doctors admit that the X-ray in the isolation ward has been broken for several months, and the ultrasound machine was repaired only the day before, but at the same time they claim that the patients are still being treated.

The medical units could not explain why they did not take patients to the prison hospital of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center, since their diagnostic equipment had not been working for a long time, the PMC reported.

“There is no explanation for the fact that women in need of MRI are not taken to civilian hospitals, and such complaints have also been received,” said the representative of the commission.

Human rights activists note that many of the appeals received are related to the elementary lack of attention of the SIZO doctors to their patients.

“Citizen R. stated that she had not been injected with the second component of the anti-toxic vaccine, the first was on August 25, and they had forgotten to give the second.

She developed inflammation on her hands, but the woman also cannot get an appointment with a dermatologist.

Citizen U. says that she has been waiting for a surgeon's appointment for three months now, she has acute pains in her knee, ”said the interlocutor of RT.

The POC also noted that the Moscow Federal Penitentiary Service in March 2020, under the pretext of combating the coronavirus, canceled the statutory opportunity for public activists to visit the cells of isolation wards, and in a year and a half without pokamer visits, the situation in Moscow pre-trial detention centers "clearly worsened."

“This was shown by the very first checks after the resumption of the visit,” the PMC noted.

They clarified that at present, the organization's representatives are allowed to go around the cell only in two pre-trial detention centers in the capital, and in the rest, human rights defenders can only conduct a personal reception of prisoners.

At the end of September, members of the POC of Moscow, for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic (since March 2020), had the opportunity to inspect the cells of two pre-trial detention centers.

RT special correspondent, a member of the Moscow POC Boris Klin, discovered that over a year and a half, the situation in the women's pre-trial detention center No. 6 has deteriorated, and the pre-trial detention center No. 12 in Zelenograd needs urgent repairs.