28-year-old resident of Saratov, who suffered from diabetes, died because of the outbreak of complications of the disease, because five months had not received prescribed subsidised medicines. A young woman has developed chronic renal failure.
Reportedly, the shortage of medicines arose due to problems with their purchase of the regional Ministry of health. The government contract for the supply of medicines was concluded in August, and until the local hospital was guided by an unwritten decree netipiski recipes. Diabetic and had to receive iron supplements and “epoetin”, which she received last year. But since January of this year, Saratov city polyclinic №20, in which it was observed, stopped issuing preferential prescriptions because pharmacies didn’t have the right drugs in the right amounts.
In the family of the dead woman tried to buy drugs at their own expense, but these drugs to relatives of Saratovsky were very expensive, and the desired amount of drug money is not enough. The result is suffering from diabetes are unable to maintain the necessary mode of treatment – she went into a coma and died.
The Prosecutor sought to bring the perpetrators to justice.
“By results of consideration of materials of check criminal case on signs of structure of the crime provided by article of the criminal code “Rendering services not meeting requirements of safety of life or health of consumers”, – stated in the message Department.
Note that some time ago experts of the Russian popular front, together with the staff of the Fund independent monitoring of health services and the protection of human health “Health” made a statement that need the drugs the Russians are not written out preferential recipes due to a simple lack of drugs in pharmacies of the country. In favor of this opinion is indicated by the data of the survey of Russian doctors about the chronic shortage of medicines was reported by almost 70 percent of health care workers.