“On the evening of May 31, for the first time after a long break due to anti-covid restrictions, we visited the prison hospital in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center.
It turned out that there was high humidity on two floors, an unpleasant smell, and ventilation was not working,” the human rights activist said.
According to him, the prisoners complained about the untimely provision of medical care and its poor quality.
“For example, a woman with diabetes said that she was injected with insulin late, by the evening, instead of three injections, they gave one,” Khuruji said.
Also, according to him, members of the ONC received complaints from a patient with an aneurysm that he had not been given a CT scan for a long time.
Another, whose lower body has been taken away, asks for an MRI for three weeks, without which it is impossible to make a diagnosis.
“A separate block is complaints about the failure to provide assistance for a minor disease.
So, a woman admitted to the hospital for surgery does not receive medication prescribed to her even before her arrest by a psychiatrist, and a man transferred to the hospital due to problems with epilepsy claims that his complaints of spinal disease are ignored, ”said member of the commission.
Khurudzhi added that the head of the BIOTEK group of companies, Boris Shpigel, who was arrested in March 2021 and accused of giving a bribe, was placed in the intensive care unit of the prison hospital.
“At the time of the commission’s visit to the hospital, doctors assessed Spiegel’s condition as moderate,” Khurudzhi specified.
Earlier, PMC members reported that Spiegel was repeatedly taken to city hospitals, including due to a heart attack.