In recent years Russia has been a bit of an isolationist country. There is a good chance the doctors, nurses, and care providers in Russia are struggling on their own to cope with this pandemic. I would not be surprised if they are not talking about this as a pandemic. Taken out of the context of the pandemic there can be a lot of self-blaming for patients' illnesses and deaths.
All care providers globally need to put this into the perspective of a pandemic with HEROES taking the front lines and treating patients that have fallen VICTIM to the virus.
May 4, 2020
By Mary Ilyushin
Three frontline health care workers (click here) have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for doctors and medical professionals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Two of those health care workers 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 Novousmanskaya hospital, where he worked and was receiving treatment after testing positive for
coronavirus.
Shulepov was 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....
