A nurse in a hospital room. Archival photoSt. Petersburg, 27 Jan. The number of patients at a clinic in St. Petersburg who died after a diagnostic study has increased to three, three more are in intensive care, a source close to law enforcement agencies in the region told RIA Novosti. «According to the morning of January 27, three patients died, three more resuscitation,” the interlocutor said. Earlier, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under part 3 of article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence to two or more persons) on the fact of the death of two patients after a medical examination of the stomach in one of the diagnostic centers in the Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg. According to the investigation, after undergoing the procedure on January 23 and 25, they were taken to the hospital, but they could not be saved. Two more patients were hospitalized in serious condition. As an informed source told RIA Novosti, we are talking about the state budgetary health care institution City Consultative and Diagnostic Center No. 1. In intensive care, two patients were diagnosed with barium poisoning. Barium is a contrast agent used in X-ray examination of the pharynx, esophagus, and stomach. killed the patient being examined
