On August 2, the occupiers’ punishers reported “the arrest of the forensic medical examination leadership, which extracted money from the deceased,” namely the “chief” of the “city bureau” and the “head of the department of forensic medical examination of corpses.”
Since 2018, these individuals allegedly “received money in an especially large amount from a trusted orderly for connivance at illegal manipulations,” namely for collecting money “from relatives and friends for high-quality preparation of the body for issuance after autopsy and speeding up the issuance process itself,” in the amount of several thousand rubles from each.
The main actor was the Crimean resident Nikolai Cherkashchenko, appointed head of the Sevastopol forensic medical examination in April 2013.
As it is rumored from the “Sevastopol corridors”, the reason for such a sudden “revelation” of the well-known fact for Sevastopol residents of “collecting money for the cosmetics of the deceased” is banal.
Cherkashchenko did not want, but repeatedly and persistently at the request of his “management” from the “health department” to “increase the kickback amount” up the “food chain”, since for this it was necessary to “increase the tariff for the population”, which was fraught with a scandal in the impoverished city.
Now they will find a more accommodating figure in Cherkashchenko’s place, which does not concern another scandal, this time in the Sevastopol infectious diseases hospital. There are allegedly “mass layoffs of medical personnel” there, after the new “chief physician” Anatoly Olenchenko, who appeared in 2024, allegedly wants to “reduce the institution’s debts” in this way.
In this regard, the specialized criminal “vice-governor” Alexander Kulagin “deigned to declare” that allegedly “people are being laid off because a planned staffing restructuring is underway, due to the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is over and the hospital is returning to normal operation”, stating that “people who stopped receiving covid bonuses, they began sending out anonymous letters. We can even guess who did it”, with an obvious threat to the complainant.
In this context, it is characteristic that the “authorities” in principle do not care what will happen next with the already small number of Sevastopol doctors, and that the situation is attributed to the coronavirus, the situation with which has changed little in the occupied city over the past two years. At the same time, Sevastopol residents on social networks also point to “payment cuts” in other city medical institutions.
