the scandal broke out in Bashkortostan in the background of the pandemic. Two nurses Arkhangelsk Central district hospital appealed to the Prosecutor after the management Agency sent them for insulation in the box, which was located in the mortuary building. This is the story of human callousness and indifference. We want to be heard by officials, who argue that the building of the morgue quite tolerable conditions for the exclusion of physicians who had contact with patients.
Anise Rakhmatullina and Anna Haraburda a long time in medicine. These brave women do not hide their names, positions, place of work. And just for that they already deserve respect.
Anise Rakhmatullina – nurse of the highest category, 32 years works in a hospital.
Anna Haraburda in medicine since 1983. Graduated from Simferopol medical school im. Ulyanov. Worked for a long time in the Crimea. Worked in the TB clinic, in the military sanatorium, in the intensive care unit in the surgical Department. In 1999 he moved to Bashkiria.
the Village of Arkhangelsk is located 100 km from Ufa. Here is the Arkhangelsk CRH, the leaders of which thought to equip a detention center in mortuary building for doctors in contact with patients with coronavirus.
Open the website of the hospital. Column: jobs. The hospital requires doctors of all specialties, including nurses.
the Pictures on the website – to look at. Externally – a model hospital. But what is behind these beautiful pictures?
“Quartz lamps can be placed in a Museum”
April 10 in the hospital opened a makeshift hospital with 14 beds, where they had identified patients with suspected COVID-19 – with fever, pneumonia, cough. Earlier in the building housed the outpatient clinic.
Before the pandemic nurses Anise Rakhmatullina and Anna Haraburda worked at a psychotherapy office (PTO). Their office is temporarily closed. Patients dismissed to go home, some employees were sent to hospital, some went on vacation.
Soon, the staff of the PTO withdrew back to work in a makeshift hospital.
Anna Haraburda: “With kovida we started working from scratch. Everything was organized in a hurry. Passed the online courses and started. At the hospital, at first it was nothing. Issued disposable suits, masks they made themselves from Marley. Fortunately, patients with COVID-19 had not yet received, not yet had time to become infected. On April 28 in a hospital was to be an unannounced inspection. The day before we were issued three suits – one gave the doctor and the two were divided into five nurses and cleaners”.
Anise Rakhmatullina: “Costumes, glasses, displays the staff put on. But the reason we went. The nurses the whole day soared in suits. The Department was a terrible heat, ventilation blocked, probably, the virus did not fly. The Commission left, Rock left us”.
Anna: “the Department wasabout not fit for covenyi patients. There’s even a wash was nowhere. After a complaint from a patient shower set. However, he barely functioned. The case itself is on the “red” and “clean” area is not divided. Rest rooms for nurses are not identified. We brought from home a cooker, kettles. At first, we were given disposable dishes, and then it ended”.
Anise: “of the ventilator in ward no. Oxygen masks too. The entire hospital has two ALV – one is in the intensive care building, the second – in irradiators. If the patient from our office happens acute respiratory failure, will not be able to help. We wondered why this case was given to patients with coronavirus, if it’s nothing? We answered: “Work, not your business.”
Anna: “you should have Seen our quartz lamps. This Museum exhibits. To us, until the epidemic has come with checks, but no one germicidal lamp are not checked, and they do have expiration dates. Why then are these inspectors? In may there was an instruction that we work without nurses. I tried to protest, saying that I a lot of tests and documentation need to be filled. In response to: “I can handle it”. And worked. Gradually adapted”.
“you wear the handcuffs, will keep Asgardia”
Anise: “Our provisional office for davidnyc patients has 12 seats. Patients suspected of did a little. The people were treated in 14 days safely discharged.
9 may, was hospitalized another two patients. May 14 I started my shift. The status of these two worse – saturation was falling, the temperature is not reduced. Notify the attending physician. The therapist took the decision to hospitalize patients in other hospitals where there are ventilators and oxygen masks. For the “first” one was sent to Ufa, the other in the settlement Chishmy. My shift ended. I zasobiralsya home.
Suddenly, call the head nurse: “your patient, who was sent to another hospital, the positive analysis so you remain in the hospital in quarantine, you can’t be home. Wash and disinfect the office and go to prison”. The guard was an order not to let anyone and not to admit”.
Anna: “that day was my night duty. In the evening I went to change the partner. He learned that we were going to lock into quarantine in the hospital. Contacted the infectious disease doctor, she was allowed to be isolated in a makeshift office, where at that time not a single patient.
But the head nurse insisted: “After treatment in the room is impossible, for you created all conditions in the special facility. Go there.” We knew that the detention center is located in the mortuary building. And, frankly, I was afraid there for the night. Askthat were arranged to send us to the psychotherapeutic Department, where he worked before the plague. Moreover, it was empty. It kind of left under a temporary dormitory for hospital staff who worked in shifts.
We contacted the doctor. She screamed into the phone: “How are you not going to the infirmary? For you there are created all conditions. There you have 15 days to live and there going to work together with Russian teammate”. Away threats to us: “If you slushies, we will take you in handcuffs and call Resguardo”. Me like an ax head struck. I could not believe my ears, that power we want to put in the mortuary building. Confused”.
Anise: “We cried, begged to put in a makeshift office at least until the morning. But the doctor insisted. What we have done? Agreed. Removed office suits soaked, but the shower was not accepted, it did not work. On the street we waited for security. To the detention center to go 300 meters, but that we not escaped, we were taken to the morgue by car and under police escort”.
“Night praying”
the mortuary Building is a one-storey barracks. In one half of the room was kept of the body, the other with a bacteriological laboratory, which was converted into a temporary detention center for 5 people.
Anise: “Went inside. The rusty grating. In the house – beds with steel springs. The musty smell of dampness and abruptly punched in the nose. I smell overreacting, I had a splitting headache, was vomiting.
it is Unlikely in the morgue thoroughly cleaned and disinfect. Water is not taken. Probably, the management thought we’ll drink from the tap. No cups, no pots, no electric range – nothing out of the devices. To wash my hands there was nothing, not even a bar of soap was not found. Hot water was not there. Stood a container of disinfectant, it treated hands. No drugs, drugs are not issued. Even the pressure measured could not. And here we were offered to stay two weeks.”
Anna: “the Guards were warned that they would lock us outside. This order of the chief, so we didn’t run away. I had a tantrum. What are we, in prison? But if there’s a fire? Grids on the Windows, we’re locked in and burned out long. The keys refused to give.
I began to write to our medical colleagues chat – where you have to determine, Anise sick here. I said, “Bear, what are you complaining about”. Called the ward nurse. She didn’t answer. Talk only to the chief medical officer: “Wait until morning, you’re in contact with covenyi patients”. And we have to endure. I never called. Two guards all night watched us in the car.”
Anise: “it was Dark. The rain has gone. It was scary. After midnight it seemed to me that the wall of someone moaning, talking, creaking door. “Let’s start to pray”, – I said to my partner. We Razoles the rooms. I’m a Muslim, Anja Orthodox. Each prayed in his own way.
Anna: “Can someone our prayers would have seemed ridiculous, but we were not amused. To sleep was impossible. Until five in the morning didn’t sleep a wink. All night sat and trembled. A little NAP when it was light. At 7 am we got the call: “Well, how did you sleep?”. He asked how we slept? If we are in sanatorium sent. Later brought Breakfast. We refused. Queasy, do not climb, lump in the throat standing.”
“Ticking away, before I change my mind”
in the Morning women under escort escorted back to the Department. Nurses contacted the leadership. Asked to release them. After much persuasion, one of the captives – Anna was allowed to go home. Decided that a woman living alone in a country house, so no one will infect. Family Anise was forced to work a shift.
Anna: “When we left the prison, the guards looked at us with a grin. Conducted us to the office. I felt like a prisoner. I was allowed to go home. Anise whispered: “Ticking away faster, before I change my mind”. I even shower did not manage to take. I drove up to the house. And then a call from the village Council: “You had contact with covenyi sick, now 14 days should not leave the house.”
Anise: “I Have three children, a husband, so the head nurse didn’t want me to leave. I started to cry, saying that if not let go, I’ll do something. And cried and cried. Then the chief took pity: “Write a statement that will stay at home in isolation. But be ready at any time, day or night, to go on shift, if you will be patient with the temperature.”
Anna: “for Three days we sat at home in the dark. No we didn’t call, didn’t ask. We didn’t even know, at the hospital or not.
may 20, I was called into work. By the time brought the remedy, the Department was divided into dirty and clean zone. We lay three men and a grandmother with horrible edema and diabetes.
Suddenly an alarm went off. We got sick, barely lowered them. On the street stood a cold wind, patients were shaking in some pajamas. A grandmother wrapped in a blanket. After five minutes it became clear that the alarm was false. After the incident I got the SMS from the boss, saying what I took to the yard with the patients? How was I supposed to do? To drop patients? That day I worked a full shift. Before I left, I passed the tests for COVID-19. Since then, the hospital did not appear”.
“like you, the fence 100 people is”
the Story of two nurses from Arkhangelsk PPM received wide publicity. We asked what the woman thinks after the incident. How to live.
Anise: “I’m 32 years worked in this hospital, there are so many of the doctors has changed, but with this attitude I’m never one hundred��was cialas. Colleagues in the majority are silent, do not complain, afraid to lose their jobs. I quietly thank you for the courage, did not remain silent.
If I get fired, they can fire. What to do if it happened. I don’t want to leave the profession. I have three children, the youngest in 5th grade. Husband is a retired officer. I’m not conflicted man, never swore. And that had to happen. Are now in isolation would be a nice reprieve from this history.”
Anna: “I Feel still bad. Has experienced the strongest stress, even a voice. Yesterday I called the ambulance, thought kovic. The doctors calmed, said nerves and undermined his health. Received me, now the house itself was flying.
We have so many health sunk into this makeshift hospital. I’m an optimist, but things just caught up with me. A bunch of chronic diseases climbed. Moral stress for life received. And when I now recover? But this is not the worst. With us because humanly not know how to say. And we are real people. I’m in medicine worked all his life, but with such horror faced for the first time”.
Anise: “During all this time no one called and apologized – neither the physician nor the chief medical officer or senior sister.”
Anna: “You ask what is relevant to us? Yes no. Will leave our generation of nurses and don’t know who will be left to endure the humiliation”.
Anise: “Nurses and nurse’s aides the authorities for people not to think. Colleagues to stand up will not be afraid of losing a job. If you return to work, you know that I still survive, constantly will be some flaws to look for, just to fire. We have always done. The user says: “no one is Indispensable. Like you behind a fence 100 people worth it.”
Anna: “We’ve thought of everything to speak to the head nurse. But we are not going to touch. Turned to our doctor. He’s a young guy, educated professional. Like, he hinted will stand up for us, he’ll get fired.”
Anise: “I get 20 thousand rubles. Heard that providers eligible for additional payments for work with patients with the coronavirus. But we do not say. Last kvitochki payment received, so I was charged less than I was getting in my psychotherapy office.
Now say that patients from that Department will again be hospitalized in the hospital with a condition that they should all be tested on kovid. The analysis in our region, paid 1500 rubles. The population of the poor, no one will be able to pay. Hence patients in the hospital will not.”
Anna: “We don’t know what await us ahead. And we’re your psychotherapy office, it is possible to tell, from the ruins raised. Some things you buy, old furniture repaired, flowers planted. We have the best Department was the staff great, we lived in the ��Ayu. How many of us thank-you letters from patients. We Anisol is likely to be fired. Other nurses will”.
In Bashkiria was the feast of Eid al-Fitr. In the hospital and in the Ministry of health of the Republic – closed. Phones are not answered.
After the scandal, the physician in conversation with local journalists mentioned that the placement of the insulator for the contact persons in the same building as the morgue agreed to by all parent bodies.
the press service of the Ministry of health previously commented on – insulator conforms to the prescribed standards, has good facilities: shower, toilet, beds, linens.
According to hospital workers, came to him with the check. The user had to replace the bed, to connect the hot water supply kettles. Now there is a house of luxury.
On his page in Instagram the head physician Lyudmila Khatmullina left post: “At a time when the whole world was United against a common enemy – coronavirus are those individuals who are trying to destabilize the situation, paralyzing the work of medical institutions.
They spread false information, leaving the hospital to engage in formal replies, answers, explanations, and excuses, taking the time to improve medical care”.
After these words I would like to offer the lady Hatmullina and those who approved the living conditions in the detention center, to spend the night next to the corpses. And to share impressions in social networks.
P. S. nurses CRB Arkhangelsk tests COVID-19 were negative.
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