MAKHACHKALA, July 21 region.
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"A video has been circulated in the media and social media, in which the medical staff of the psycho-neurological boarding school in Makhachkala commit illegal acts against an elderly patient, filming what is happening on camera. On this fact <…> a criminal case has been initiated under Part 2 of Article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Torture”),” the report says.
Head of the republic Sergei Melikov instructed the Ministry of Health to carefully check the work of the dispensary and make personnel decisions.
The day before, a video was circulated on the Internet in which an employee of the Republican Psychoneurological Dispensary covers the head of an elderly man tied to a bed with a pillow and holds it, while the second laughs off-screen. According to the results of an internal audit, both were fired.