The Oktyabrsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced the former head physician of the interregional tuberculosis hospital No. 19 of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Tigran Mkrtchyan, to two years in a penal colony in a case of negligence. This was reported by publication 161.RU.
According to information on the court’s website, Mkrtchyan was found guilty of negligence resulting in the death of a person through negligence (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on his orders at the hospital, a group of prisoners called “orderlies” were unofficially given the right to work with patients, despite lacking the necessary knowledge.
Witnesses in the case at the trial said that Mkrtchyan ordered his subordinates to create medical histories for the “orderlies” and indicate fictitious diagnoses in them in order to use the convicts in the hospital. Then the “orderlies” were examined on paper for a long time, and when there were no grounds for treatment, the medical record was simply transferred to another department. Thus, the prisoners worked in the hospital for years.
Later, due to improper treatment of diabetes, one of the “orderlies” died, the convicted Dmitry Baksheev. As 161.RU writes, he lay tied up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital, cared for by other prisoners who, among other things, were allowed to use violence against patients.
On January 30, the same court that heard Mkrtchyan’s case , sentenced three employees of MTOR No. 19 to real terms in the case of torture of 43 convicts in the psychiatric ward of the hospital. According to the case file, patients in the department were beaten, they were forbidden to bathe, and they were injected with psychotropic drugs.
According to the investigation, doctors Anastasia Potorochina and Daria Pozdnyakova, who worked there, together with the deputy head of security and operational work at the hospital, Alexander Lyakh, forced “orderlies” » use violence against other prisoners, and other doctors write false information in patient records.