He lay very calmly on the floor, and then... died.

      According to the submitted statement, the victims — the mother and son of Denis Ovchinnikov — intend to claim seven million rubles each in compensation for moral damages for the "failure to provide medical services by the ambulance staff." The defendants in the lawsuit are the Ambulance Station and the regional Ministry of Health.

      Recall that on January 24, impartial video cameras installed in the entrance of one of the houses on Mira Street recorded all the events in detail for about an hour and a half, marking the date and time of suffering, agony, and death, as well as the subsequent robbery of the deceased.

      On that day, Denis Valeryevich went to a grocery store across the road from his home around four o'clock in the afternoon. In the sales area, he collapsed, but the doctor from the ambulance called by the store staff, likely assessing the patient's health condition "by eye," did not consider it necessary to provide him with medical assistance.

      However, when the ambulance had not yet left "Samobranка," the healthy patient, in the doctor's opinion, collapsed again at the public transport stop. For the second time, the doctor possibly thought there was no need to provide him with emergency assistance. Although, if the doctor had performed an ECG on the patient, the heart rate graphs would have indicated that Ovchinnikov's heart, having recently turned 45 ten days ago, had actually begun a "countdown."

      It is likely that the "point of no return" for the heart was crossed at the moment when, at 17:18 (the camera began recording the "last journey" of the patient), the ambulance staff led Denis home but left a completely sober man, who was collapsing at his feet, on the street by the path leading to the entrance.

      At 17:20, Denis managed to get to his feet and, with difficulty, reached the entrance, where (17:23) he fell on the steps leading to the second floor. At 17:35, his body was discovered by neighbors. At 18:24, the ambulance doctors confirmed his death. At 21:35, the funeral team dragged the body to the stairwell of the first floor, thoroughly searched the jacket and pants, and from the left pocket of the deceased, a stack of bills was handed over to one of the undertakers. The deceased's hands were tied with his own belt, the body was wrapped in plastic, and at 21:37, it was taken out of the entrance.

      Rested before death

      During the court session, the doctor from that very ambulance was questioned, about whose "medical revelations" it is probably better for people seeking medical assistance — due to age or health — not to know.

      As the doctor explained, by the time the ambulance arrived, the patient "was calmly lying on the floor (of the store - E.O) with a towel on his head, looking... with his eyes and refused medical assistance: 'I myself wrote a 'refusal' of his hospitalization. The patient only signed. No, there were no witnesses'..."

      A quarter of an hour later, when the ambulance had not yet left, a woman ran in, reporting that a person had fallen at the bus stop: "This same man was lying in the snow, and nothing indicated that emergency assistance was needed. I went to escort him home... And he did not fall into a snowdrift, but, saying that he would rest a bit, sat either on a step or on the curb..."

      By the way, the doctor could not explain why a person lying on the floor of a store or in a snowdrift — after all, he wasn't sunbathing on the beach, and it wasn't +30 degrees outside — led him to firmly believe that he did not need medical assistance. Apparently, for the "diagnosis," it was enough that a sober man (if he had been drunk, he would probably have been taken to a narcology unit) was not singing, dancing, did not remove someone else's wet towel from his head, and was looking with his eyes. Apparently, this can be taken as a guideline for action when calling an ambulance — in hopes of receiving emergency assistance: to widely open the door for the team, perform a few dance moves, sing a hit song, and, God forbid, stare at the arriving personnel. But if one wants to look, it should not be done with the eyes.

      The next court session is scheduled for June 19. The "postponement of the case review" occurred because the Investigative Committee did not present the court with an expert conclusion (sent back in February), which the Investigative Committee guaranteed to submit to the court back on... May 25. And it is hard not to think that there is a calculation that the pain of losing a son and a father will fade away in six months. Or that Maxim, the son of the deceased, will get tired of traveling to court hearings from another city.

      The court also did not receive from the agency the video recording of what happened before and in the entrance of the house, which, most likely, allows the authorities to still search for "signs of defamation, discrediting, and even undermining the state order" against the Ambulance Station and Kirov medicine as a whole.

      As the "prosecution" believes, there is hope that on June 19, the overdue requests for the court (which, for example, in requests to the Publishing House are accompanied by a mandatory reminder of a 100,000 ruble fine for non-compliance) will still be provided. Additionally, the store employees, who witnessed this medical process, will be questioned.