"We're not animals." Police refused to file a report against the father of a sick boy who held a sign on Red Square demanding his son be given an expensive medication.
For the fate of a two-year-old Misha Bakhtin in the Yekaterinburg Journalists have been following him almost since his birth. The boy suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. In 2021, Russians raised 160 million rubles for an injection, which helped stop the disease but didn't get the boy back on his feet.
For more than a year now, parents require Local doctors offered another injection, costing between five and nine million rubles. They staged numerous protests and even won a court case that forced the Ministry of Health to purchase the expensive medication.
Doctors claim they have the injection, but still refuse to administer it, fearing side effects due to incompatibility with the previously administered drug. According to them, the consequences can be unpredictable.
The boy's father Dmitry Bakhtin He is convinced that the sooner the drug is administered, the more effective the treatment will be. To raise awareness of his condition, he went to Red Square on the morning of August 30th with his child and a sign reading, "Help Save My Son."
How to сообщает According to the Ural Telegram channel It's My City, citing his lawyer, Dmitry Bakhtin stood at the picket for just a few minutes. Then, police officers approached him and asked him to follow them to the police station. He went there with his sick son.
“The police said, ‘We’re not animals,’ so they didn’t draw up a report and returned the posters,” cited Lawyer's publication.
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Following the picket on Red Square, the Sverdlovsk Ministry of Health held a press conference.
Officials showed A purchased injection for a two-year-old boy. They say they are only prepared to provide the treatment recommended by federal specialists. Currently, everyone is awaiting the results of the previously held consultation. The parents' willingness to take responsibility for changing the medication doesn't change anything.
"The attending physician is responsible for the correct prescription of the drug, so we probably don't have the right to prescribe drugs outside the instructions that are available," said Chief Physician of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital Oleg Averyanov.
Photo: It's My City and E1.ru