In Zhytomyr region, the protesters were thrown by the CEO of the hospital into the garbage can because

In Zhytomyr region protesters threw the CEO of the hospital into the trash

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Activists protested against the closure of the neurological department of the communal Zhytomyr multidisciplinary support hospital.

When the people of the CEO of the institution, Sergey Demus, came to the people, the rally threw him into the garbage can.

About the course of the action that took place on April 10, tell « Zhytomyr.Info » and Public.

According to media reports, about 300 patients and medical staff have come to the rally against the closure of the neurological ward.

During the reorganization, the management of the medical institution decided to combine this department with therapeutic. Activists argued that many people will remain without the necessary medical care as a result of such changes, and about 30 doctors would lose their work.

”Now that the war is ongoing, without a neurological compartment. The chief physician, or who was there, wrote the order on his own without conducting a survey among people. Decided and closed « – said the protest participant Alexander.

The head of the medical institution Sergey Demus noted that they want to create a palliative care department in the hospital, combining therapeutic and neurological ward.

”The total number of beds to be created is 31 for rehabilitation profile, 20 beds – for therapeutic, 20 – for neurological. All patients will be able to treat any pathology of both therapeutic and neurological profile. Before that in the neurological ward was 37 beds « – said Demus.

According to the CEO, doctors should offer work in the newly created ward or in other available positions in the institution.

Despite the arguments, the protesters continued to insist on their own and demanded to abolish the reorganization of the department. When they were refused, Sergei Demus was thrown into the garbage can.

Subsequently, the protesters appealed to the head of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration. In the evening, the first deputy chief of Ova Natalia Ostapchenko met with people, who reported the cancellation of the order.

”In my presence, the order was canceled. They want to bring this issue to the next session to the deputies of the Novoguyvinsky settlement council. Deputies want to gather and finally approve the budget, as well as in the presence of financial and economic justification to provide funds from the local budget for such a branch to exist« , – she said.

At the Ministry of Health, at the request of « UP. Life », they refused to comment on the situation with the reorganization of the departments, explaining that they did not influence the economic activity of the hospital.