A memorial plaque to a two-year-old girl is planned for Karelia. She died due to poor medical care.

Two-year-old Veronica Kuminova died in hospital Kostomuksha On the night of February 14th. According to preliminary reports, it was due to a lack of medical care. The initiative group decided to erect a memorial sign for the girl as a symbol of the fight for a safe childhood. 

"This tragedy was a blow not only to the family but to the entire community, revealing systemic problems in the organization of medical care. Her memory should become a symbol of the fight for childhood safety and a reminder of the high cost of professional error. At the cost of this little girl's life, we must protect other children."- wrote one of the initiators Anzhelika Ivanova. 

She added that work on choosing a location and obtaining permission to install the memorial sign has already begun. 

Veronica became ill on February 13th. Ambulance diagnosed She had an acute respiratory viral infection and took her to the hospital. There, they determined that the girl was suffering from oxygen deficiency, but they didn't give her an oxygen mask or take any other measures to save her. Meanwhile, the girl was suffocating and stopped breathing, but it wasn't until half an hour later that she was taken to the intensive care unit. 

As her mother told it Victoria KuminovaThe head doctor calmly pronounced the child dead and said, "We did everything we could." However, Victoria says, the doctors didn't run any tests or put the child on a ventilator.

From the hospital fired two pediatricians, on the instructions of the head of the Investigative Committee excited criminal case. Petition for a fair investigation of the case have signed More than 4 people attended Veronica's farewell on February 22. has come Most of the city. In Kostomuksha, they decided not to celebrate Maslenitsa on this day.

Photo: from the family archive