On April 10, a rally was held near the Zhytomyr multidisciplinary hospital. People protested against the closure of the neurological department. In fact, it was planned to unite the neurological and therapeutic departments. The protesters were so carried away by the process that they decided to throw it into the garbage tank and. chief doctor. And it would be a common story about angry people who have bent a stick in an attempt to defend their rights, if not for a few “but”.

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Firstly, the very reorganization of the conditional department is not a whim of a particular administrator of the hospital, but a necessity. Patient routes, approaches to financing medical institutions have changed, now financing depends on the number of services provided and contracts with the National Health Service of Ukraine. In the case of a specific hospital, the neurological department without a stroke package did not pay itself off and was unprofitable, so it was a forced action - to reorganize the department. But such decisions are never made single -handed, usually the owner (local united territorial community) is always informed about such actions.

However, immediately after the aforementioned events, the secretary of the village of Rada displeased from the closure of the department and condemned it, but did not find the strength to condemn violence.

Secondly, many of my colleagues after watching a video about how they throw and. The chief physician in the garbage tank expected that the local authorities, the Department of Health, the Police, the Ministry of Health would condemn such an act of violence against a medical worker, but instead we received silence. Only on April 15, the director of the Department of Medical Services of the Ministry of Health Yevgeny Gonchar, to a request from journalists, commented on the situation: “We, as the Ministry of Health and I personally condemn any violence, in particular against medical workers and the leadership of any healthcare institution. This is not a civilized way to solve any problems "

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And if the journalists did not ask? The question is rhetorical. In addition to this statement to the Libi Coast, no other statements, comments, messages or publications on the official website of the Ministry of Health. And this is a rather eloquent position.

Not convicted, unpunished violence will certainly take root and give sprouts. Previously, dissatisfied citizens simply wrote comments on social networks, now they received a clear signal that a doctor can and should be thrown into a garbage tank. A long queue, did not smile, something did not like something-in the trash.

The National Health Service of Ukraine endowed the patient with subjectivity. Actually, the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe NSZU is to play for the patient. Its task is to buy a quality service for the patient. The patient can call a hot line, complain, get a feedback.

But where to call the doctor while he is carried in his arms to the trash?

Medical workers always feel unprotected and constantly encounter violence against themselves. Let us recall at least the case in Cherkasschina last fall, when the patient pounced on a doctor with a knife during the examination. Or already this year-an attempt on the deputy head of the Ministry of Health, anesthetist Sergei Dubrov. But usually difficult cases become known. Few reports about the insults and shocks of the police. It is pointless. During the Covid epidemic, my colleagues even carried gas cans with them. Who protects the rights of a medical worker? It turned out no one.

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Local authorities do not always deal with doctors. Trade unions are busy with anything, but not by protecting the rights of medical workers. And even the Ministry of Health, as the whole situation showed, is indifferent.

Meanwhile and. The chief doctor was injured, actually pursuing the policy of the Ministry of Health, trying to optimize the hospital. Now daredevils will make unpopular decisions much less. Why take risks and change something, if in the end you, as an administrator, are left alone with a problem? Why should an ordinary doctor follow the requirements of the NSZU or the Ministry of Health, to go against the patient’s desire, if it is easier to go with the flow and not cause negative emotions in relation to himself, because no one will come to the rescue?

Unfortunately, I am sure that violence in relation to medical workers will only become more. Because dissatisfaction is always easier to take on who is closer. And closer usually a doctor, a nurse, a nurse. Overton's window regarding ideas to commit violence towards doctors has never been so wide.

And it’s annoying that the authorities that form a medical policy have no courage or desire to condemn such acts of violence. This only plays along with such moods in society.

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There will be no protests, boycott. The medical community was too tired and burned out to actively fight. But doctors will vote with their feet, and the shortage of medical workers will only increase. The consequences of such a frivolous attitude to such violence will be sad.

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