Paramedic Attacked by Crazy 'Yabatka' Is on Sick Leave with Head Injury

The situation with the employee has a depressing effect on the team.

The paramedic who was attacked in the hospital by a Lukashenka supporter is now on sick leave. The young man has a head injury. The management of the emergency station told the Pershy Rehiyon portal.

The victim then filed a statement to the police. A check-up is underway. The paramedic's been working at the station for three and a half years, told Valentina Pashkevich, chief doctor of Brest Emergency Hospital.

He is polite, non-confrontational and strictly follows the internal regulations. The chief doctor considers the words of the assailant that the medic could somehow hurt his political feelings as absurd.

- Medicine should be out of politics and remain neutral. The staff of the ambulance does not care what kind of contingent stands in front of them. The task is to save.

The situation with the employee has a depressing effect on the team. The chief physician says several doctors are on sick leave. Their colleagues have to replace them.

Let us remind that on January 5, a 55-year-old man hit a paramedic in the face in the Brest City Emergency Hospital. Eyewitnesses filmed the moment on video.

According to the video, the man was using foul language and said to the paramedic:

- Hear that? Against Lukashenka? What, you don't believe me? Are you a doctor today? You were against Lukashenka yesterday... After these words, he hit the paramedic in the face.

As later the assailant said, he was in Brest on January 5. He was drunk, "fell down at a bus stop, broke my head," and ended up in the hospital ER. That's where the conversation took place.

Mikalai used to work as a school bus driver. After the incident, he was fired.