Tatsiana Seviarynets asks procuracy to inspect tuberculosis hospital
Tatsiana Seviarynets, a coordinator of the steering
committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party (BCD), applied to the
Vitsebsk Regional Procuracy with the request to hold a check-up at the Vitsebsk
regional tuberculosis hospital in the settlement of Bahusheusk. According to
her information, rights of patients are violated there. In particular, they are
threatened with repressions for any complaints about the conditions and medical
treatment.
“I applied to the procuracy, as ordinary people cannot get to this institution
and see what is going on there. It is a closed institution and many patients
spend a considerable part of their lives there, being chronically ill with
tuberculosis. I asked officers of the procuracy to inspect the legality of keeping
of our adherent Valery Hancharenka in custody in the psychiatric department. He
suffers from an open form of tuberculosis. However, as soon as he told
journalists about the hospital regime, he was declared psychically ill and
isolated,” said Mrs. Seviarynets.
The woman also maintains contacts with other patients. According to them, the
hospital experiences materials problems and lack of medicines. However, it is
impossible to check these facts as the chief doctor, Natallia Liasnaya, doesn’t
want to maintain any contacts.
“It was very difficult to make her agree to collection of finances and things
by our forces in Vitsebsk and passing it all to the hospital. She doesn’t want
to speak to me, because she thinks that we besmeared the hospital on
Hancharenka’s initiative. But if everything is so well there, why take away the
mobile phones, paper and pens from the patients?” argues Tatsiana Seviarynets.
She also says that the chief doctor repeatedly threatened to apply to the
procuracy with the request to find the authors of the “libel”. “Let the
procuracy check how the ill are treated and fed there, and whether there are
reasons for any libel,” says the activist.
