Kirov resident waited for disability group until he died

      Back in December 2022, 42-year-old Konstantin Perminov handed over all the documents and certificates necessary to obtain a disability group. The fact that the registered patient of the 9th polyclinic on Verkhosunskaya Street received the 3rd group was reported on April 19, 2023 — the very day when Kostya's mother and brother returned home from his funeral.

      According to the relatives of the deceased, Kostya was a kind and patient man: for several years he meekly cared for his sick grandmother, a veteran of war and labor. The chores took up so much time that I didn't have time to get a family and children.

      Konstantin Yurievich started having health problems back in 2018: first, he had a heart attack, then his pancreas made itself felt, his blood pressure jumped, and his legs failed. He was getting weaker, but at first he held on — even, while he had the strength, he worked next door to the house as a fireman. To have enough money for food and medicine.

      Hospital doctors said that Perminov did not need surgery, he was treated "according to protocol." And even when the severe pain in the heart began, and hypertension did not allow to rise, they advised to call an ambulance. But the injections and ivs given by the medics who came on call to 9 Embankment Veresnikovskaya Street made life easier for a short time.

      "He was very trusting: they told him nonsense — we will heal, it will pass, he endured and waited... An adult man who was sure that the state and doctors were doing everything possible for him. And I also hoped to get a disability so that I would have enough handouts for medicines, so that I wouldn't have to think about where to get money for heart medications," says his brother Igor about the last months of Konstantin's life.

      In the fall of 2022, the attending therapist Irina Ovchinnikova gave Perminov a referral to specialists in order to collect the certificates necessary for a medical and social examination of disability. In December, when the documents were ready, Konstantin handed them over to the doctor himself. But when neither in January nor in February any information about the passage of the ITU commission appeared, Konstantin turned to Irina Nikolaevna again.

      "There are no privileged people here," the "kind doctor" dismissed the patient who complained that "it hurts a lot, but there is still no commission." And the ITU answered the phone every day that the documents had not yet been received.

      Only in March, the head of the polyclinic, Elena Timkina, was forced to admit that Konstantin Perminov's documents... gone: "We don't know where." Either Ovchinnikova, who went on vacation, took them with her, or she handed them over to some other therapist... The April complaint to the Ministry of Health accelerated the search for the lost.

      By that time, as his brother recalls, Konstantin was completely weak.:

      "On April 17, he was sitting as white as a sheet, and it seemed that he could not be whiter, but he was getting paler. Ambulances arrived and diluted the blood. Then he said, "It doesn't hurt anymore.".. But I felt as if blood was dripping directly from my heart. I called my aunt to take a closer look while I ran to the clinic in the hope that they would give him a car that would take him to the hospital. We ran into my aunt, who came running from work, at the door. She entered the house: seconds or minutes passed, but she did not find her brother. He died no longer believing that his life was important for the country."

      The funeral of Konstantin, who had barely turned fifty, was quiet. And when my brother and my mother, who was barely able to stand, returned to the empty house, the phone rang. A businesslike and dispassionate voice reported: Perminov was given the third disability group. That is, he finally got the right to receive free medicines and rehabilitation...

      According to the postmortem diagnosis, the deceased had pancreatitis, heart attack, atherosclerosis, and death occurred from acute heart failure.

      Konstantin Perminov's relatives filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee, where in 2023 they opened a criminal case on "failure to provide assistance to a patient without valid reasons." Moreover, liability under the article occurs in the event of negligent infliction of moderate or serious harm to health. As well as the death of the patient.

      On Wednesday of last week, April 9 (exactly two years after Perminov's documents were received by the ITU), the forensic medical examination reported that there was no "direct causal relationship between the treatment provided to Perminov and his death." And, although the case has not yet been closed, the family of the deceased was advised to seek the truth in a civil court.

      By the way, during the initiation of the criminal case, therapist Irina Ovchinnikova was promoted. And she probably managed it so successfully that a year later she replaced Elena Timkina, the head of the polyclinic. Probably because in the Kirov Ministry of Health, the absence of a cause-and-effect relationship between a patient's career and death is probably considered dogma.