Sivakova Anna

Sivakova Anna

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2024: Sentence - 7 years in prison after death of patients

On July 8, 2024, the City Prosecutor's Office Moscow announced that the court had sentenced the founder and former head of a private medical clinic. " Medlange Anna Sivakova received 7 years in prison in connection with the death of several patients after plastic surgery.

It is said that 50-year-old Sivakova knew about the lack of a license and conditions for plastic surgery in the clinic. However, guided by a selfish motive, in 2018 she organized the provision of appropriate medical services. At the same time, Sivakova, being the sole founder of Medlange LLC and the actual head of Medklinika LLC, attracted accomplices to carry out illegal activities. As a result, three patients died after performing operations, and three more patients suffered serious harm to health.

On the basis of the concluded agreements on the provision of paid medical services in two commercial organizations, a number of operations were carried out that did not meet the requirements of the safety of life or health of consumers, in the conditions of improper organization of medical protection and sanitary and epidemiological regimes, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Sivakova at the beginning of July 2024 is on the international wanted list, in connection with which the case was considered by the court in the general procedure of criminal proceedings in the absence of the defendant. A preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen for her in absentia. Sivakova will serve her sentence in a general regime correctional colony. At the same time, as noted, earlier two of her accomplices were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment. Anesthesiologist Lev Khitrin received six years in prison, head nurse Larisa Savelyeva - two years. The court also satisfied the civil claims of the victims for compensation for moral and property damage totaling more than 12 million rubles.^[1]

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