A Russian paramedic is in serious condition after he fell out of a hospital window after he complained about being forced to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus.
It is at least the third incident in which a Russian doctor has plunged from a hospital building under mysterious circumstances in the last two weeks, according to reports. The two other doctors died from their injuries.
Alexander Shulepov has a fractured skull after falling from the second floor of a hospital in the Voronezh region.
Last month, he and a colleague filmed a video complaining that the chief doctor at the hospital forced him to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus. He appeared in a second video three days later denying the claim.
Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, the acting chief physician at a hospital for war veterans in Krasnoyarsk, died May 1 after falling out of her fifth-floor office window.
Local media reported that she fell out of the window while on a conference call with regional Health Minister Boris Nemik about turning one of the buildings at the health facility into a ward to treat coronavirus patients. Nepomnyashchaya was reportedly against the idea.
On April 24, Natalya Lebedeva, the chief of the ambulance center in Zvyozdny, died after falling out of a window at the hospital where she had been treated for the coronavirus. Her colleagues told local media that she may have killed herself because she had been accused of spreading the virus at her clinic.
