Covid-19: Meanwhile In Russia, Defenestratsiya
One of the instances in that post resulted in the death, after a week in intensive care of a doctor.
We also noted the case of a Magnitsky family attorney who fell off his balcony. He reportedly has amnesia and no recollection of how he came to have split his head after a fall of five stories.
Here are two more doctors, one dead one in intensive care. Oddly, all three of the medicos had Covid-19 and all three had complained about working conditions.
From Oakland's own East Bay Times, May 5:
Three front-line health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia in the past two weeks.....MORE
Two of them are dead, and one remains hospitalized.
All three incidents, which are being investigated by Russian law enforcement authorities, have prompted intense discussion in the Russian press and on social media.
Alexander Shulepov, an ambulance doctor in Voronezh, a city about 320 miles south of Moscow, is in serious condition after falling from a hospital window on Saturday. Local state television, citing regional health officials, said he fell out of second-floor window of the hospital where he worked and was receiving treatment after testing positive for coronavirus.
Shulepov had been hospitalized for coronavirus on April 22, the same day he and his colleague Alexander Kosyakin posted a video online saying that Shulepov had been forced to continue working after testing positive for coronavirus.
Kosyakin had previously criticized hospital administration for protective gear shortages on his social media and was questioned by the police for allegedly spreading fake news.
Kosyakin confirmed these details to CNN in an interview.
“[Shulepov] is in an intensive care unit, as far as I know in a serious condition, Last time I spoke to him was on the 30th of April; we checked in with each other,” Kosyakin told CNN. “He felt fine, he was getting ready to get discharged from the hospital … and all of a sudden this happened, it’s not clear why and what for. So many questions that I don’t even have the answer to.”
The regional department of Russia’s health ministry told CNN in a statement that Shulepov “is a victim of an accident due to his own lack of caution” and is receiving all necessary medical care....
We ended the defenestration post with the observation:
Gravity. That's it. And the danger of windows.
Must be careful around windows.
That goes double now.
