In the Irshavshchyna, criminal proceedings have been registered on suspicion of possible failure by medical personnel of the district hospital to take measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the district.

This information was discovered by the prosecutor during the monitoring of the media.

The report, in particular, states that the district hospital’s medical officer deliberately hid the presence of COVID-19 in one of the patients who later died.

Preliminary legal qualification for h. 1 tbsp. 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of sanitary rules and norms for the prevention of infectious diseases and mass poisoning).

Pre-trial investigation into this fact will be carried out by the Irshava police station. The procedural guidance in criminal proceedings is provided by the prosecutors of the Irshava department of the Khust local prosecutor's office.