Matveychuk Olga

Biography

2025: Sentence - suspended sentence for bringing a subordinate to suicide

Former head nurse of the trauma hospital Olga Matviychuk was sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of four years for bringing a subordinate to suicide. The corresponding decision was made on February 12, 2025 by the Surgut City Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The court found that Matviychuk's actions led to tragic consequences, but taking into account the circumstances of the case, she was given a suspended sentence.

According to RBC, the court also banned Matviychuk from holding senior positions in state and municipal health care institutions for a period of two years.

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The tragedy occurred in the fall of 2021, when the deceased nurse of the Surgut trauma center Ayazhan Tashmagambetova was found in her apartment. According to the prosecutor's office of Ugra, systematic threats from the leader led to the development of a depressive reaction and an emotional state predisposing to suicide in the deceased.

The trial heard testimony from 30 witnesses. Some of them confirmed the facts of persecution of subordinates by the accused. Matviychuk herself denied committing illegal actions, claiming that she was "purely human" to the deceased nurse.

In October 2023, the Surgut City Court found Matviychuk not guilty in the case of bringing to suicide. However, in February 2024, the Ugra court overturned the acquittal - the judicial board in criminal cases agreed with the appeal of the prosecutor's office. The case materials were sent for a new consideration in a different composition of the court.

The meeting scheduled for January 23, 2025 did not take place due to the failure of the accused to appear and was postponed to February 7. Following a re-examination, the court found Matviychuk's guilt proven and passed a guilty verdict.^[1]

2022: Wanted list after female employees' suicides

Former senior nurse of the Surgut Clinical Trauma Hospital (KTB) Olga Matveychuk, accused of bringing two subordinates to suicide, was put on the federal wanted list. This was announced on September 18, 2022 by the Action trade union. According to the organization, she was going to leave Surgut and was "removed" from the plane when trying to take off.

The very fact that law enforcement agencies are taking measures so that the suspect does not leave the city is at least a sign that the investigation is seriously engaged in this issue, "said Andrei Konoval, co-chairman of the Action Interregional Trade Union of Health Workers.

Surgut Clinical Trauma Hospital

The trade union also said that one of the colleagues of the victims - nurse Olesya Gubanova - headed the cell of the Action trade union in the Surgut KTB and sent data to law enforcement agencies that expired consumables were used in the medical facility. The medical unit "did not meet the requirements of the sanitary and epidemiological regime when providing medical care and conducting medical interventions in the health of patients, including young and newborn children, which caused infectious diseases of patients, possibly with a fatal outcome."

In 2021, two nurses who worked under the leadership of Olga Matveychuk committed suicide. In October, 49-year-old Ayazhan Tashmagabetova was found dead at home, whose husband said that the head nurse had repeatedly publicly humiliated her subordinates, did not allow "covid" (COVID-19) payments, and prevented a salary increase. A criminal case was initiated under the article "bringing to suicide."

Two months later, another nurse of the department, Iraida Petrova, took her own life. After that, the hospital was checked, but the Department of Health of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug did not find a connection between the death of nurses and the action of the management of the medical institution.^[2]

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