According to the newspaper’s report, health workers dropped the resident of Sakhalin from the stretcher at the hospital’s door. astv.ru.
The incident occurred in the city of Kholmsk.
Paramedics transported the victim from the intensive care unit of the City Center Regional Hospital on Michurina Street to the branch on Sovetskaya Street. They got him to his destination by ambulance without incident, but when they started to bring the patient to the medical facility, they acted negligently.
Eyewitnesses of the incident say that it all happened because the victim was not tied to a stretcher.
“The woman was brought along the ramp on a stretcher, and when the door opened, the wheels of the mobile device hit the threshold. Instead of lifting the stretcher, they began to pull it. As a result, the wheels folded, and the stretcher turned into a sled, on which the patient rolled and fell to the ground. If one of the witnesses had connected to the publication as the patient expected, then this would not have happened,” he said.
The Sakhalin Ministry of Health announced that the chief physician of the medical facility is conducting an investigation into the incident.
The inspection proved that folding stretchers were used to prevent the patient from falling if the patient hits an obstacle during transport. Thanks to the front legs that move smoothly under the surface, it descends from the carried device without harming health.
“A similar action occurred in the case of a patient in the hospital – crossing the threshold, the stretcher mechanism worked, the woman was not injured. The Ministry of Health has resolved this incident with the health personnel in order to prevent such cases.”
Previously in the Novosibirsk hospital dropped the baby at the time of birth.