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25 December 2020, 14:36

Lukashenko demands explanation of child death in Minsk Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital

MINSK, 25 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko visited the Minsk Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital on 25 December and demanded an explanation of why a child died in this hospital on 16 December, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko said: “Those, who need treatment, should be treated and saved. We don't want things to happen the way they did to a 13-year-old boy here. I am not accusing anyone for now. All kinds of things may happen.”

It was noted that the teenager had spent less than 24 hours in the hospital. “What did the out-patient clinic do meanwhile? Things shouldn't happen like that. You will not be able to explain it to the parents. You are a mother, too,” Aleksandr Lukashenko told the hospital's Chief Physician Marina Sokolova. “I am a father. You have to understand that a child is more than sacred for me. We should have taken all kinds of measures to save the kid. A child's death is a catastrophe. This is why we should work very well in this regard.”

“I am telling you one more time: I want you to explain what happened. So that it won't happen again. I don't want to hear ‘Maybe it wasn't examined'. Give me the reason why it happened. If our medics don't know how to treat some kinds of diseases, if they fail to understand what it is at all, then we will teach them. It is understandable because they are not gods,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stated.

The president noted it is necessary to timely and promptly respond to diseases, particularly in children: “If you see that a child runs a fever of over 40C, even if the kid has just fallen ill, call her [the chief physician of the hospital] right away for help. You should convene conciliums there and then instead of when the kid is connected to a lung ventilator. You cannot treat patients at their homes if they are in danger.”

“I understand that the kid was brought here, your hospital has the state-of-the-art equipment. Certainly, you did what you could. But if irreversible processes had begun already, what could you do… We should work harder on it,” Aleksandr Lukashenko concluded.

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