Today it became known that the investigative Committee opened the first criminal case about non-payment of allowances to doctors working with coronavirus patients. The case was initiated under article “Negligence” against the leadership of Armavir city hospital, in particular the head physician Sergey Smirnov.
Previously, the physician was dismissed after ambulance staff recorded a video message in which he said that he had not received a penny of the promised Putin coronavirus payments to doctors. However, the dismissal of the head of the hospital is not pleased with the protesters. Doctors from the very beginning were confident that the physician is not to blame, as problems with the Federal payments originated in different regions of Russia, not only in the Krasnodar region.
Initially, the administration explained the dismissal of Smirnova to the fact that employees entrusted to him the city hospital has not received required payments due to the fact that the doctor of the institution had not submitted to the authorities of edge lists doctors who are entitled to additional payment for work with coronavirus patients.
ambulance Staff, with video of the flash mob which started the scandal, immediately after the dismissal of Smirnova recorded a new appeal in support of the physician. Doctors demanded to restore the head in position and to seriously investigate the situation. However, instead of proceedings connected to the case, the Prosecutor’s office, as a result of the doctor and not criminal case.
Why is the first criminal case was initiated on the Kuban, could Armavir chief of staff to leave local physicians with no benefits really because of negligence, we found the candidate of legal Sciences, lawyer Aleksandra Vostrikova:
– I watched the development of the situation with payments to doctors and to assume the following. It seems that the local officials out of fear of the Supreme leadership as usual trying to cover up their own shortcomings at the expense of “scapegoats”. By coincidence the first “punching bag” were is the leadership of the Armavir hospital. The first criminal case on this issue could be initiated in almost any other region. Now it is absolutely clear that delayed payments to physicians were due to inaccurate wording in the relevant government decree. The bug is fixed, but the trail will last a very long time. The President gave the Commission, including the Investigative Committee, to understand why doctors are not paid the required surcharges. May 15, SK started its work, and here just turned up the situation with the chief, who was removed from office for non-payment of allowances to the doctors. It turns out, in fact, an ideal object for criminal prosecution.
of Course, the consequence still should find out, whether really the doctor is not underal these lists, and if so, why. Apparently, he, like many doctors in other regions, just didn’t understand how exactly should act, on what basis to make these lists. Consider all by hours and minutes or to charge all the doctors promised by the President surcharges. The leadership of the province now, of course, will assure that everyone was informed well in advance, but it check out this most likely will not succeed. In fact, in the prevailing situation, any of the actions of the head of the hospital could, if desired, be brought under some kind of criminal charges, for example, under the “misappropriation of budget funds” in the case of appointment of the doctors full-fledged presidential co-payments. In this case, as we have seen, was “Negligence”.
the Problem is that this precedent, unfortunately, probably will not be the last. As a result, doctors, and so now working on the wear, will be afraid not only of infection COVID-19, but also criminal prosecution.
