MOSCOW, Aug 10. Investigators detained the head physician of the Vladikavkaz hospital, where nine people were killed the day before due to a breakdown in the oxygen system, the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for North Ossetia told RIA Novosti. or the inaction of all officials responsible for the incident. The investigation is under control at the headquarters of the UK. According to the information on the official website of the medical institution, the post of chief physician is occupied by Vladimir Pliev. According to the Ministry of Health of the republic, he took this position in March 2021.
Pliev was born in 1963. In 1986 he graduated from the North Ossetian State Medical Academy. For about ten years he worked as the chief physician of the Nakhabinsk city hospital of the Krasnogorsk municipal district of the Moscow region. The authorities reported on «shortcomings» in the hospital in VladikavkazOn Monday evening in the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital, there was a breakthrough of the oxygen pipe supplying the intensive care unit where the patients were on mechanical ventilation. As a result, nine people died. Two more died the next day; Doctors do not associate one of the two new deaths with the accident. A group of anesthesiologists-resuscitators of the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health and specialists of Roszdravnadzor were sent to Vladikavkaz. At night, cars with gas arrived in the republic: three tons were brought from Kabardino-Balkaria, four from the Stavropol Territory and eight from Krasnodar, another ton was sent from the airfield of the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District. Soslan Tebieva, the cause of the accident in a hospital in Vladikavkaz was a malfunction of the oxygen supply system. During the inspection, law enforcement agencies revealed both technical problems and negligence in the work of officials in the hospital, said the head of the region Sergei Menyailo. A criminal case was initiated under the article on the provision of services that do not meet security requirements. The source told the eerie details of the accident at a hospital in Vladikavkaz