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Doctor kills patient with one punch in Russia

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Sun Jan 10, 2016 01:15 PM Last update on: Tue Jan 12, 2016 09:29 PM
This screengrab from the video posted by Bahtiyor Tashpulatov on YouTube shows a doctor about to throw a punch at a patient at a hospital in the city of Belgorod, Russia. The blow led to the death of the patient who suffered a cracked skull.

Russian police opened an investigation on Saturday after a doctor was captured on video punching a patient inside a hospital, knocking him to the floor. The patient died instantly, reports the INQUIRER.net.

The shocking video of the attack in the southern city of Belgorod was aired repeatedly on state television and went viral on YouTube, while Russian media nicknamed the attacker “the boxer doctor”.

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In the video, the strongly-built doctor in medical clothing drags the bare-chested male patient from the examination table, asking him “why did you touch the nurse?” and pushes him out of the doorway.

When the patient returns, the doctor deals him a single blow to the face and a crash can be heard as the middle-aged man falls backwards onto the floor.

Meanwhile the doctor continues to scuffle with another man accompanying the patient, and it is only minutes later that the medics notice the patient lying motionless and attempt unsuccessfully to revive him.

Belgorod’s Investigative Committee said in a statement released Saturday that the incident took place on December 29.

The doctor hit the patient in the face after he “kicked a nurse during a procedure,” the investigators said.

“The cause of death of the victim was trauma to the skull and brain from hitting the back of the head on the hard surface of the floor.”
 

DEATH THROUGH NEGLIGENCE

Russian media named the doctor as Ilya Zelendinov, a surgeon at the hospital, and the patient as 56-year-old Yevgeny Bakhtin.

Investigators said the doctor was suspected of causing death through negligence, for which he could serve up to two years in jail.

He has been fired from his job but remains free after signing a declaration that he will not travel during the investigation.

Investigators denied any delay, saying they opened a criminal probe the day after the incident, after the hospital reported the death and a post-mortem showed a head injury.

The relatively minor charge reflects the fact there is “no grounds to say that the doctor wanted to murder the patient,” investigators said.

“If the victim had stayed on his feet or hit his head on a less hard surface, the consequences would not have been so critical.”

Health Minister of Russia, Veronika Skvortsova has ordered the state health watchdog to carry out a check into the incident, state television reported Saturday.

Russian medics have long operated in a culture of secrecy, with patients having little recourse to compensation for medical errors.

Last year two Russians resorted to taking guns to hospitals and shooting doctors for perceived mistakes in their treatment. Both killed themselves at the scene.


 

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