City Clinical Emergency Hospital No. 2, Novosibirsk

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A patient burned down alive in the Novosibirsk city hospital

On August 26, 2022, an emergency occurred in the City Clinical Emergency Hospital No. 2 in Novosibirsk - a patient burned alive in the ward. This was reported by representatives of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations at an operational meeting. The Ministry of Health of the Novosibirsk Region confirmed this information.

A message was received, firefighters arrived at the call, but no help was needed. The fire was eliminated on an area of ​ ​ 1.5 square meters. A fire broke out in one of the chambers, - said Artem Shcherbakov, deputy head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Novosibirsk Region.

Employees instantly responded to the signal and found a person on fire in the ward. The fire was quickly extinguished, the neighbors in the ward were not injured, the fire did not even damage the property. The patient himself, unfortunately, died, - said the regional Ministry of Health.

According to the department, the preliminary version is suicide. Investigators by August 29, 2022 are checking on the fact of what happened.

The fact that the patient committed suicide was also reported by the Mash Siberia Telegram channel. According to him, the 53-year-old man suffered from incurable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, in which a person cannot completely breathe in and out. Doctors planned to let the patient go home, but he told the doctors that he had nowhere to go. Before the fire, he covered himself with oil and covered himself with toilet paper, the Telegram channel reports.

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