A child died in the Krasnoyarsk region after an ambulance refused to attend.
Ten-year-old Artem from the city of Artemovsk in the Kuraginsky district died at the regional children's hospital. Two weeks earlier, he fell off his bicycle and suffered severe internal injuries.
According to the local publication Vzglyad Info, the child had gone out for a walk, but a short while later a neighbor boy ran to his mother and reported that "Artyom was lying in the bushes by the road, not moving." It turned out that the child had fallen off his bike, hitting his stomach hard on the handlebars.
At the local ambulance asked The boy's symptoms (abdominal hematoma, nausea, vomiting, and severe pain) were reported and they advised painkillers, but they did not respond. The next day, the parents called an ambulance again, but only then was the boy hospitalized and diagnosed with ruptured internal organs and severe blood loss. He was urgently flown by air ambulance to the regional hospital in Krasnoyarsk and underwent surgery. However, on the morning of September 21, the boy died.
A criminal case has been opened under Part 2 of Article 109 (causing death by negligence due to improper performance of professional duties by a person).
Local residents on social media writethat there had been complaints about the Kuragin hospital before:
"It's all because they removed the ambulance service from the nearby village of Krasnokamensk. And now Artemovsk, Koshurnikovo, and other nearby towns are left without assistance. And from Kuragino, an ambulance takes 1,5-2 hours."