Developers: | Shenzhen Prunus Medical |
Branches: | Pharmaceuticals, medicine, healthcare |
2021: Shutdown of operation of 2500 IVL devices after fire in Ryazan hospital
In mid-June 2021, it became known that Roszdravnadzor stopped the operation of 2,500 Chinese IVL devices after a recent fire in the Ryazan Regional Clinical Hospital named after N.A. Semashko.
We are talking about equipment manufactured by Shenzhen Prunus Medical. In accordance with the order of Roszdravnadzor No. 5436 of June 9, 2021, the turnover of a batch of 2.5 thousand IVL devices was stopped, permission for the import of which was received by Delrus LLC at the end of August 2020. At the same time, the use of similar devices imported by Flogiston-Med LLC, Dorn LLC, Medtrade St. Petersburg LLC and R-Farm is not suspended. In total, in Russia by mid-June 2021 there may be up to 5.7 thousand devices.
According to the Unified Procurement Information System, the Ministry of Health of the Ryazan Region without a competition purchased 20 Prunus Boaray 5000D IVL devices manufactured by Shenzhen Prunus Medical in November 2020. The total amount of the contract amounted to about 57 million rubles.
The fire in the hospital named after N.A. Semashko occurred on June 9, 2021, because of it 11 people were injured, three of them died. A criminal case was instituted on the fact of the fire under Part 3 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence), the investigation was put under the control of the central apparatus of the RF IC. On June 11, 2021, the Investigative Department of the RF IC in the Ryazan Region seized documents from the hospital for the purchase of medical equipment for the needs of the department of anesthesiology and intensive care.
As part of the investigation of the criminal case, the Minister of Health of the region, the chief doctor of the hospital and the head of the department were interrogated. The testimony was given by medical personnel and people who participated in the evacuation of people and extinguishing the fire, representatives of hospital counterparties supplying medical equipment to the department of anesthesiology and intensive care.[1]