Doctors of the psychiatric hospital of St. Nicholas, located on the embankment of the river Moika in St Petersburg, crying out for help. For 22 days they are locked together with mentally ill people in the observation. Many have to sleep in the same room with the patients. When we’re out of quarantine, they are not misleading.
About the situation and the strongest moral and psychological fatigue of the medical staff told the “MK” President “of the Alliance doctors” in St.-Petersburg Elena Kolesnik and relatives of the health workers.
Doctors, patients locked in observation, appealed to us for help, — says Elena Kolesnik. Only in isolation remain 223 paramedic. We learned that in the hospital from 17 branches 13 are empty. They are not sick. The remaining patients all tests for coronavirus negative, like doctors, nurses and nurse’s aides. The last time the strokes they took on 30 June. It turns out that patients with coronavirus in the hospital.
— Initially, at this hospital there have been cases of infection with coronavirus?
— As told to us by health workers, in may and in April there were cases of infection, but these men were then isolated, taken out, and no one else got sick. It did not had to hold, as all the tests taken were negative.
— What is the situation now there?
Doctors are round the clock with mentally disturbed people from 16 June, for 22 days. It is not a simple patients with severe mental illness, which is often dangerous both for society and for themselves. This is the most well-known psychiatric hospital is in St. Petersburg.
I asked the doctors to record video from the hospital, but they say it can result in criminal liability. When applying for a job they all signed documents where it was stated that to film or make audio recordings in a psychiatric hospital is prohibited. To disclose any information they can. There are often famous people or their relatives. But in writing calls for assistance we received. When we published information that doctors keep in the hospital for more than three weeks, they began to receive threats.
From whom?
From the hospital. Literally, the doctors and nurses said, “If there’s a problem, we will punish you, will estrafem or dismiss.”
— what?
Doctors have heard: “because you opened your mouth”. Went information wave, to the hospital yesterday came the representatives of Rospotrebnadzor. The blame for the situation they shift now to the hospital administration. And those, in turn, angry with the nurses dared to tell about what is happening in the hospital.
We were able to find relatives of health workers who for three weeks neverif your loved ones.
— I Have in the hospital is a nurse a younger sister, — says Daria. It’s been more than three weeks as they locked with the patients in the hospital. Still nobody tells them when they go home. Sister called, admitted: “I can’t do it. I’m already at the limit”. Because they sleep there in the neighboring houses with patients. And doors, as you know, in mental hospitals, in wards no. Can you imagine what is the situation there? They work day after day. But the concept of “day off” erased. As there you can spend your free time? The hospital they couldn’t be abandoned, they scare the sanctions, heavy fines. On the perimeter there is a high fence, is a checkpoint.
— Why not let them?
they said: “stay here until further orders of the chief sanitary doctor of Saint-Petersburg”. Which is, however, impossible to get through. I dialed the number 50 times, but no one I did not answer. In the CPS say: “I can’t help you there”. Worrying about the morale of his sister, I wrote the treatment in a few instances, no reply received.
another of our companion, Olga, in the psychiatric hospital of St. Nicholas mother works as a doctor.
— Mother and her colleagues continue to hold in the hospital, despite the fact that they’re all healthy, all the tests for coronavirus negative, — says Olga. — They’re desperate, they don’t say even approximate dates when they were released. Say: “Sit on.” The hospital wrote a letter to the CPS, but there was no answer. Mom complains that she had every day a headache because they sleep in the wards with patients. There will not relax. Sleep and Wake have the cries, the PR and moans. I’ll tell you more, the first time they were sent to isolation, they do not separately fed. They ate with the patients. They didn’t have hot water. They had nowhere to wash. Then the hot water is still given, but to get in the shower now is problematic, have to take their turn, as a lot of people.
— it is possible to transfer the products or any personal items?
— Yes, PPC has a special window. We carry her gear. Okay, I’m officially an adult now. But many physicians at home were little kids. Dad went to work, what to do if there is no nearby relatives? Ask to after the kids I had noticed the neighbors? I’m scared for mom. She is around the clock with difficult patients. Even when I call her, I hear patients next scream and mumble different voices. All of this can adversely affect the mental state of employees.
