Soldatova Irina Gennadyevna

Soldatova Irina Gennadyevna

Biography

2020: Resignation from the post of Minister of Health of the Omsk Region

On November 5, 2020, the Minister health care of Omsk region was Irina Soldatova was dismissed. The dismissal occurred after the scandal with the long hospitalization of seriously ill patients with suspicion. coronavirus COVID-19

Today I decided to resign the Minister of Health of Irina Gennadyevna Soldatova. This decision is balanced, it was made on the basis of an analysis of the current state of the regional health system and on the basis of an inspection by Roszdravnadzor of the incident that occurred on October 27 in the city of Omsk, "the governor of the Omsk region, Alexander Burkov, wrote on his Instagram page.

He added that the main task in the region is to make sure that such incidents do not happen again.

At the end of October, two Omsk ambulance teams brought patients to the Omsk Ministry of Health who were refused to be admitted to city hospitals. In one car was a pensioner with 80% lung damage, in another - a man of 85 years with 88% lung damage. Both patients were in serious condition.

According to doctors, they took such a step from powerlessness. They added that they took the patient at 11 in the morning, for 10 hours they tried to put her in a hospital. After they decided to bring a woman under the walls of the Ministry of Health.

This is not the first scandal in regional health care. Several local people reported complaints from residents who found it difficult to buy drugs due to improperly issued prescriptions. Pharmacies do not sell medicines if their names are indicated in Russian. The Ministry of Health of the Omsk Region said that the requirement to issue a prescription for drugs in Latin is established by current legislation.

The forms of recipes, as well as the procedure for their registration, were approved by order of the Ministry of Health of Russia dated January 14, 2019 No. 4n. The use of the Latin language allows the pharmacist to offer the patient not some specific tablets, but a drug containing the indicated active ingredient, the department explained.[1]

2021

Initiation of criminal proceedings on abuse of authority, international wanted list

The court arrested Irina Soldatova in absentia, who is suspected of abuse of office. The ex-Minister of Health of the Omsk Region has been put on the international wanted list, the press service of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia said on January 29, 2021.

Soldatova and the director of the state institution "Directorate for the Maintenance of the State Health System of the Omsk Region" Viktor Babikov are suspected of committing a crime under paragraph "c" of part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of power with serious consequences).

The ex-head of the Omsk Ministry of Health Irina Soldatova opened a case on abuse of office

According to the investigation, Soldatov, Babikov and a number of other people prepared documents and concluded state contracts with affiliated commercial organizations for the supply of medical equipment at a clearly inflated cost, including as part of the implementation of budget funds allocated by the Omsk region to combat the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Damage to the Ministry of Health of the Omsk Region from the actions of suspects was estimated at 105 million rubles.

According to a RIA Novosti source familiar with the situation, it turned out that Irina Soldatova owned an apartment of 160 square meters in Dubai. According to the agency's informant, after resigning from the post of minister, she, having learned that a criminal case had been instituted against her, flew to rest in the Maldives, and then to Dubai, where by the end of January 2021 she was.

In relation to Irina Soldatova, a decision was made to bring as an accused under paragraph "c" of part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code, but since she evaded appearing abroad on repeated calls from the investigator, a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen in absentia against her at the request of the investigation, the UK said.[2][3]

SC: Purchase of medical equipment for patients with COVID-19 at an inflated triple price

Former Minister of Health of the Omsk Region Irina Soldatova bought medical equipment at very high prices. This was announced on December 7, 2021 by the head of the second department for the investigation of especially important cases of the regional investigation department of the TFR Mikhail Zaytsev.

Yes, it's great that a lot of good quality medical equipment was purchased for the needs of our medical institutions, but we are talking about the fact that this equipment could be bought in two, three times more, "he said.

SK: Ex-head of Omsk regional health Irina Soldatova bought medical equipment for patients with COVID-19 at an inflated triple price

The representative of the TFR cited data on one of the contracts: as part of it, 30 humidifiers for ventilators were delivered to the Omsk region at a price of 840 thousand rubles per unit. At the same time, investigators found out that distributors supplied them to the territory of the Russian Federation at 180 thousand rubles and the average cost of this equipment in Russia did not exceed 260 thousand rubles.

The cost of IVL devices, as reported by Mikhail Zaytsev, amounted to a contract of the Omsk region for a unit of 4.2 million rubles, while, according to the conclusion of the examination, the price of such a device was not higher than 2.07 million. That is, the Omsk region during their purchase of devices overpaid twice.

The investigation also found that intermediary firms were used in the supply of medical equipment, which did not have either the equipment itself or the funds. Having received money from the Ministry of Health, they bought what they needed with profit for themselves.

At first they were paid by the Ministry of Health, they bought equipment for these funds. For example, 4.5 million rubles came, 2.5 they paid for equipment, they kept the rest for themselves, Zaytsev said.

According to him, there is no custom background in the criminal case, all the circumstances that were identified initially, they are confirmed.^[4]

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