After the accident at the Vladikavkaz hospital oxygen station, two more patients died, North Ossetia Acting Minister of Health Soslan Tebiev said. “Yes, we did,” he commented on information about the deaths of two other people after the emergency.
According to the region's health ministry, in a single day 11 people died in hospital, nine of them – as a result of an accident, one – for some unrelated reason in the emergency, on the death of another patient, they organize a check-up. death from thromboembolism, an additional medical examination will be carried out on an additional case, ”the ministry said.
On Monday, an external line that supplied oxygen burst at the Emergency Medical Aid Hospital clinic. Nine patients aged 47 to 85, who were in critical condition, died.
& # 34; There was an accident at the oxygen station, oxygen interruptions. In fact, there was a burst of the oxygen pipe from the tank, which is underground, and the supply of & # 34 ;, – earlier, the acting leader of North Ossetia Sergey Menyailo was arrested.
After the accident, the patients were not given oxygen for 10 to 40 minutes, a law enforcement source told Life. At the same time, the chief medical officer said that the reserve gas cylinders were activated a maximum of three minutes after the main system was turned off, the newspaper notes. The source said that the medical facility's oxygen supply system was substandard and not registered with Rostekhnadzor, the necessary documentation was missing and it there were no specialists among the employees authorized to work with such equipment. and. Department of Emergency Situations Rescue Cards11: 04
After the tragedy, the Board of Inquiry opened a criminal investigation into the provision of services that did not meet safety requirements , reported RIA Novosti.
A group of anesthesiologists-resuscitators from the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine of the Ministry of Health and specialists from Roszdravnadzor were sent to Vladikavkaz.
charge of causing death by negligence.
