“The perpetrators will be punished”: the Investigative Committee began checking the Gannushkin hospital on signs of illegal hospitalization

The Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Moscow has begun an inspection of the Psychiatric Clinical Hospital No. 4 named after Gannushkin on the grounds of a crime under Article 128 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Illegal hospitalization in a medical organization providing psychiatric care in an inpatient setting”).

A report on the discovery of signs of a crime is at the disposal of RT.

The check began in connection with the admission to the hospital of 44-year-old Muscovite Svetlana Gudkova, about whom RT previously wrote.

After a divorce from her husband, the woman was forcibly hospitalized, a psychiatric diagnosis was made, and her parental rights were limited.

Also, she is not allowed into a common apartment, a large share in which belonged to Svetlana.

According to Gudkova, a pre-investigation check is still underway.

“About a month later I will undergo a psychiatric examination.

I hope the UK will be able to sort out the situation, and those responsible for my illegal hospitalization will be punished, and I will be able to remove the diagnosis, ”the woman said.

According to her, the psychiatric hospital refused to issue medical cards to the investigation, so their seizure is now planned.

In the Gannushkin Design Bureau, RT was unable to promptly comment on the situation.

RT also sent a request to the Russian Investigative Committee.

“Husband cut off from finances”

As RT previously reported, Svetlana and Maxim Gudkov have been married for 16 years.

The family has three children (18, 16 and seven years old).

According to Svetlana, problems with her husband began after the birth of her third child, when the woman left work to take care of the children, and her husband at that time “cut her off from finances.”

“I found myself in a completely dependent position, so I decided to file for divorce,” she explained.

The Gudkovs divorced in May 2018.

At the same time, two years before the divorce, Maxim filed a lawsuit against his wife demanding that she pay for a communal apartment.

The corresponding document was registered in the Savyolovsky court.

As follows from the materials of the instance, the claim was left without consideration.

After the divorce of the Gudkovs, courts began related to the division of property and the payment of alimony.

All this time, the couple lived in a common apartment.

The ongoing quarrels had a detrimental effect on the condition of the woman.

In June 2018, after another scandal, Svetlana decided to see a doctor.

As Svetlana recalls, she could not sleep for several days due to nervousness, so she called an ambulance.

She was hospitalized in the Gannushkin hospital.

There, Gudkova was diagnosed with a serious diagnosis - paranoid schizophrenia.

Through the court, the hospital achieved involuntary hospitalization.

The woman was released only after 50 days.

Svetlana believes that her ex-husband had a hand in this, who distorted information about her behavior.

“He got into the confidence of the doctor and spun fables.

That supposedly I've been out of my mind for a long time, but he used to hide it.

He took a real situation and inflated it to a fantastic scale.

Everything has been flipped.

Describing that I was financially completely dependent on my husband, I said that I was a hostage of the situation.

In a figurative sense, and this was interpreted, that I had delusions of persecution, and I believed that I was kidnapped and physically held hostage.

Which, of course, is not so, ”Gudkova explained.

Diagnosis disputed

Later, she underwent a voluntary examination at the Pomoshch outpatient clinic, where this diagnosis was refuted.

Doctor of Medical Sciences Mikhail Drobizhev came to the conclusion that the diagnosis was made erroneously, pointing out a number of gross inconsistencies in the previous conclusion of the doctors.

For example, a vivid manifestation of schizophrenia occurs before the age of 30, and Svetlana was diagnosed at 44.

As Drobizhev noted, if a woman really suffered from schizophrenia, it is not clear how she could work and raise children for so many years without attracting the attention of psychiatrists.

In a new study, hospitalization was explained as exceptionally severe stress.

“At the time of observation, there are no signs of a mental disorder.

Gudkova does not pose a danger to children ... She does not need treatment with psychotropic drugs and observation by a psychiatrist, ”the conclusion says.

From the psychiatric hospital, Svetlana returned back to the common housing with her ex-husband.

And in December 2019, she was hospitalized again, this time, as she said, at the call of Maxim Gudkov.

The woman was again forcibly kept for 50 days, but this time the diagnosis was changed to a milder one - schizotypal personality disorder.

It was also subsequently refuted by an independent examination.

According to the conclusion, Svetlana's "in the past had strange beliefs that did not correspond to cultural norms" as the main sign of the disorder, but this in itself cannot be a sign of disorder, which is specifically enshrined in the law.

But other obvious symptoms that should have manifested throughout life (obsessive states, depersonalization, etc.) were absent in Gudkova, the experts concluded.

"Achieve Cancellation"

Maxim Gudkov, meanwhile, filed a lawsuit to limit Svetlana's parental rights.

He motivated this precisely by the fact that the woman “has a mental illness of paranoid schizophrenia, in July 2018 and in December 2019 she was placed in a psychiatric hospital.”

As Gudkov pointed out in the lawsuit, his ex-wife refuses to take pills and is a danger to children.

The court considered these arguments convincing, and after being discharged from the hospital, Svetlana could not get home.

Now she lives with relatives and seeks through the court the restoration of parental rights, and is also trying to regain the right to use the common living space.

As lawyer Ramil Gizatullin noted, in order to restore her rights, a woman must first achieve the cancellation of the diagnosis.

“Conducting an audit by the UK is a great help in this matter.

They, on their own initiative, can appoint to conduct a study of the psyche of Svetlana.

Only if it is in her favor, the investigators will be able to bring unscrupulous doctors to justice, ”the lawyer explained.

At the same time, Svetlana will be able to challenge her initial diagnosis only after the final decision on the "case of doctors" is made, the lawyer added.