“I hobbled home, slurping half-heartedly” - a Moscow hospital denied treatment to a disabled SVO
Seriously injured veterans of the Northern Military District sometimes face serious bureaucratic obstacles to receiving proper treatment.
A representative of the Association of Northern Military District Veterans, a war veteran, Vladislav Efremov, said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The presenter asked if the disabled person had any “problems with officials” during treatment, paperwork, etc.
“There were not just problems with officials as such, but problems with the system as a whole, which was not sufficiently loyal to veterans and did not quite fulfill its functions.
There was a moment when not even the bureaucracy, but the medical system showed itself at its worst, I still didn’t have a prosthesis. I have a shrapnel wound in my left leg, through and through, which took a long time to heal. And there is no right leg. And I came to the clinic on crutches.
It's a completely scary story when I go there on crutches. And they tell me: “You don’t have Moscow registration.” Although, according to Russian legislation, having a compulsory health insurance policy, I can be connected to absolutely any clinic.
I still had an open wound then. And they tell me: “Our clinic is overcrowded. There are no healthy people here.” This was the most severe collision with the medical care sector, when I simply turned around and hobbled to my home on a crutch, without a sip,” said Efremov.
“And now we are trying to work with this, and there is a certain response,” he added.
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