Zimin Andrei Nikolaevich

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2024: Suspended sentence for patient's death due to lack of equipment

On January 22, 2024, the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow issued a verdict in the criminal case of doctors of the capital's Medika 24 clinic (formerly Medicine 24/7), whose actions led to the death of the patient. The head of the anesthesiology department Ruslan Pavlov, as well as resuscitators Pavel Naumov and Andrei Zimin, were in the dock. The latter received a suspended sentence in accordance with a court order.

The incident occurred in 2019. An 83-year-old woman turned to the Medicine 24/7 clinic with complaints of heart pain. Doctors diagnosed "acute myocardial infarction," but efforts to improve the patient's condition did not bring results. After that, the woman was transported to the City Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after N.I. Pirogova, where she died after stenting. After that, several more similar cases occurred in the Medicine 24/7 clinic, including the death of the famous television producer Vladimir Artsibashev from a stroke.

Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced in the criminal case of doctors of the capital's clinic "Medica 24"

During the initiated investigation, it was established that the medical institution did not have the right to provide assistance to patients with similar diagnoses. In particular, the prosecutor's office said that "a cardiology room and a cardiology department with a resuscitation and intensive care ward were not organized in the clinic, which indicates a violation of the procedure for providing medical care to patients with cardiovascular diseases." In other words, "Medicine 24/7" did not have the necessary equipment.

The investigation tried to prosecute the head physician of the clinic Oleg Serebryansky, but he managed to leave Russia. As a result, Pavlov, Naumov and Zimin, who were found guilty under paragraphs "a," "c" of Part 2 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, committed by a group of persons and resulting in the death of a person by negligence). Zimin was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence, while his colleagues received three years of forced labor (Naumov with a 10% deduction from wages).^[1]

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