Amur Central District Hospital No. 1

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2024: GP gets term for issuing fictitious sick leave

In August 2024, it became known that a therapist from the Khabarovsk Territory was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months of suspended imprisonment for issuing a fictitious sick leave. The Komsomolsk-on-Amur court found the 29-year-old doctor guilty of accepting a bribe and forgery, which is confirmed by the case materials published by the prosecutor's office of the Khabarovsk Territory.

Earlier, the prosecutor's office of the Khabarovsk Territory clarified that a criminal case was opened against a 60-year-old therapist of branch No. 1 of the Amur Central District Hospital in the village of Elban.

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According to the prosecutor's office, the trial showed that in 2022 the doctor received ₽15 thousand through an intermediary for issuing a sick leave to a resident of the city who does not have a real disease. The intermediary, who collaborated with the doctor, agreed with clients on the cost of the service, and these amounts ranged from ₽12 thousand to ₽17 thousand, while half of the amount remained with the intermediary. The doctor entered deliberately false data into medical documents, which led to the illegal receipt of benefits by the patient and exemption from labor duties.

The investigation established that the therapist used instant messengers to interact with clients, where he determined from code messages that it was a fictitious sick leave. The correspondence used phrases such as "can a boy get an appointment today? Very necessary, sick, "which meant a request for a fake sick leave. The doctor for bribes made diagnoses, such as "lesions of intervertebral discs," in the medical records of patients.

As a result of the trial, the doctor was convicted in two criminal cases. In the first episode, he received 4 years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 3 years, in the second - 3 years 6 months and 10 days of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 2 years 6 months. The charge in both cases was brought under Part 3 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe) and Part 1 of Art. 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (official forgery).^[1]

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