Doctor Of Minsk Emergency Hospital: We Were Also Invited To Parade

For the authorities, a pretty image on May 9 is much more important than the lives of Belarusians.

Many Belarusians do not trust the official statistics. Journalists draw attention to obvious statistical anomalies: for example, officially the mortality of patients with COVID-19 in Belarus is one of the lowest on the planet. At the same time, the mortality rate among doctors is 15-30 times higher than in other European countries. The Ministry of Health last time answered the questions of journalists in mid-April, which only fueled public doubts about the voiced figures, the website of the Belsat television channel writes.

Physicians, in turn, often complain about the overcrowding of hospitals and the lack of objective information, as well as the unspoken prohibition of superiors to communicate with the press. In early May, the Chief of Medicine of the Vitsebsk City Clinical Emergency Hospital Siarhei Lazar lost his job - this happened a week after the release of a large tut.by report, which described the work of resuscitation during the pandemic. Earlier, a Vitsebsk doctor Natallia Laryjonava was called to the prosecutor’s office for questioning, after she had publicly stated at the end of March that the situation with the coronavirus in Vitsebsk “began to get out of control.” In such circumstances, the ability of the media to receive full information from doctors is significantly limited.

A doctor at the Minsk emergency hospital, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that his superiors invited his colleagues to attend the May 9 parade.

“It was a completely unobtrusive offer, such a distant sound, they said, like, maybe someone wants to go. Nobody volunteered. No one insisted,” he explains.