MAGADAN, January 10 Investigators in Magadan opened a criminal case against doctors due to the death of a patient who was taken home after being examined in the hospital, reports SUSC for the region.
Earlier, the Ministry of Health of the Magadan Region began checking the validity of the actions of Magadan doctors, who brought the patient home after being examined in the hospital, where she died. On social networks, the daughter of an elderly woman wrote that her mother lost consciousness right in the ambulance when she was being taken home after being examined in the hospital.
However, the doctors demanded that the woman’s husband take her to the apartment and provide her with a stretcher. Half an hour later, according to the girl, her mother died. The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed the head of the SUSK for the Magadan region to evaluate the actions of the doctors.
«It was previously established that on December 16, 2023, an emergency medical team delivered a 60-year-old Magadan woman to a regional health care facility. After examination by doctors, the woman was sent home, where she died the next day,» — reports the department.
A criminal case was opened under the article “Causing death by negligence due to improper performance of professional duties by a person.” No suspects have been reported yet.