“Horrible stench. The Ukrainian heritage in Crimean hospitals has worsened” – Poklonskaya
In Crimea, during the years when the peninsula became part of Ukraine, a catastrophic situation in the healthcare sector developed. Over the past six years, it has not improved due to the fact that federal funds allocated by the center do not reach the final implementation.
The former prosecutor of Crimea, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Natalya Poklonskaya stated this on the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If you just go to the hospital - the same Evpatoria, Saki, Belogorsk, Bakhchisarai, you will see that there is a Ukrainian heritage that remains, and which, it has only worsened. It got even worse. For example, in a hospital, money was allocated for repairs, the repairs were done in the following way - they simply applied another layer of paint to the old, peeling paint on the window sills and it became even worse. The smell in this hospital when you walk in doesn’t smell like a hospital.
In Kerch, when there was an explosion at the college, people were [killed] in the corridors, operations were carried out, and the hospital itself, when you entered there, I have the impression that this did not happen even in the 40s. It’s a terrible stench, nothing works, there are no basic white sheets...
I asked and wrote this question. "All measures are being taken." Of course, the head of the republic, the Minister of Health of Russia... If I were a prosecutor, my ministers would not be fired, but would be in prison. I believe that if the minister failed to fulfill his duties, federal money was allocated, and this money went somewhere wrong, he should be in prison,” Poklonskaya said.
The deputy also emphasized that today her appeals to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation do not lead to real results.
“On these painful issues, I immediately turn to the Prosecutor General of Russia, and he forwards my requests to the Crimean Prosecutor’s Office. The Crimean prosecutor's office is beginning to conduct an investigation and it is extremely rare that measures will be taken that would change the situation. Documents of the prosecutor's response will be issued in the form of a presentation. Perhaps decisions will be made to organize a criminal prosecution, which then, subsequently, the Investigative Committee will say that there is no corpus delicti and we will not initiate a criminal case. And this is an endless correspondence.
But in fact, this is of no particular benefit to people, because these are consequences, investigations into why this is the case today. But nothing changes in life, in the material world. Those walls are not painted, the equipment is not installed. It is very difficult to achieve specific, active actions that would improve the situation in the healthcare sector,” the deputy concluded.
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