Hundreds of servicemen of the Russian army suffer from colds. According to Life News. more than 300 soldiers of the RF Armed Forces were hospitalized with a diagnosis of pneumonia, and the same number with suspected pneumonia.

So, according to the publication, an outbreak of the disease in a military unit near the town of Chebarkul in the Chelyabinsk region forced the command to introduce a special regime for controlling the sick. The disease has already claimed the life of Private Konstantin Tsybunov, who died in the hospital due to complications to his lungs.

According to relatives of young people called to bear military duty, in part, the disease began to mow down one guy after another at the moment when the cold came to the region. The set temperature minus immediately exposed the economic minus - the barracks in which the recruits live is practically not heated.

A simple acute respiratory disease, which is far from uncommon in winter, immediately caused complications in the lungs. Private Konstantin Tsybuk was one of the first to come down with a fever.

“A few days before his death, my brother called me, saying that because of the cold I had to sleep in a pea coat,” says Konstantin’s younger sister Ksenia. - Kostya spent the whole day with a high temperature.

Colleagues tried to treat him on their own. Doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia, but Kostya could not be saved due to complications. Such grief for our family! My brother has a 10-month-old daughter.”

But Konstantin was the first in a chain of guys who fell ill with pneumonia. One by one, the soldiers began to enter the medical unit with fever, cough and severe chest pains.

“Over the past two days, more than 50 children with fever were admitted to the hospital,” said the mother of one of the servicemen.

Meanwhile, the military prosecutor's office has already become interested in the outbreak of pneumonia. “At the moment, an inspection is being carried out in Chebarkul “On the safety of life and health of military personnel,” said Sergei Bogomolov, spokesman for the military prosecutor's office of the Volga-Ural Military District. “We are also investigating the cause of death of Private Tsybuk.”

A similar situation is developing in Mordovia. 26 recruits serving in Saransk were urgently hospitalized in the Republican Infectious Diseases Hospital, Stolitsa S writes. The conscripts complained of high fever and headache.

“Conscripts from the military unit began to enter our medical institution from December 27,” says Vladimir Kargaev, chief physician of the Republican Infectious Diseases Hospital. All patients were taken by ambulance.

Young people aged 18 to 23 complained of cough, sore throat, high fever. They were placed in two departments…” “Most of them have an acute respiratory viral infection,” says Svetlana Gruzintseva, chief freelance infectious disease specialist at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Moldova. - One was diagnosed with bronchitis, six with pneumonia. Moderate condition. To date, there is no threat to life."

According to unofficial information, conscripts from Bashkiria became the distributors of the virus. Apparently, the young people felt unwell on the way to Mordovia. “I believe that the recruiting commissions are to blame for what happened, which allowed unhealthy recruits through,” explains the commander of military unit No. 86276, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Fominov. - We immediately placed the sick in the infirmary. With my own money, I bought them lemons, antipyretic drugs. Hot drinks were organized, evening walks in the fresh air. But when one of the conscripts' temperature rose to 39.6, it became clear that we couldn't cope on our own. Usually in such cases we are obliged to send patients to a military hospital, but this institution is many kilometers away. Therefore, we turned to local doctors ... ".

I am doing military service as a conscript, I fell ill with unilateral pneumonia, they want to be discharged on January 14, do I have the right to go home for rehabilitation after discharge?

Answer

Hello Elmart.

Sick leave is granted to a serviceman on the basis of the conclusion of the military medical commission in accordance with Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 07/04/2013 N 565 (as amended on 10/01/2014) "On approval of the Regulations on military medical examination". An examination to resolve the issue of the need to grant sick leave is carried out by decision of the head of the military medical institution in which you are receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment (hospital). The submission to the VVK is prepared by the attending physician. If there is no VVK, therefore, there will be no grounds for vacation.

A conscript may, but is not required to, be granted leave for personal reasons for up to ten days, but only in the event of a serious condition or death of a close relative. In other exceptional cases, when the presence of a serviceman in the family is necessary, leave is granted by decision of the commander of the military unit. That is, you are not required to be sent home for rehabilitation.

Tragic news came from Podolsk near Moscow: in the military district hospital No. 1586, four conscripts from different military units died of pneumonia. I do not want to give bad forecasts, but perhaps these deaths are not the last: the medical institution is overflowing with sick conscripts. The military prosecutor's office began to check the incident. According to one version, the fault is the wrong vaccination system. But, as MK found out, one should not write off both the denial of medical care and the disregard for the life of recruits.

A serious illness claimed the lives of four army men on New Year's holidays. All of them ended up in the Podolsk hospital, when they had practically no chance of recovery. On December 26, without regaining consciousness, a soldier of the 27th motorized rifle brigade Yevgeny Tyulenev died. And three days later, 19-year-old Zakir Kuchekaev from Bashkiria and 23-year-old Dmitry Sokolov from the Kaluga region died. A week later, 20-year-old Sergei Shvedov died. All the dead were given the same diagnosis: acute bilateral bacterial-viral pneumonia.

19-year-old Zakir Kuchekaev was called up on November 13 from the Bashkir town of Meleuz. A young handsome guy was distinguished by good health. Professionally engaged in kickboxing. Prior to being drafted, he studied at college as a bank clerk. In general, he was ready for the army both mentally and physically. I decided to repay the debt to the Motherland myself, no one forced me. An example was the elder brother Dinis.

He was assigned to a military unit near Naro-Fominsk, where artillerymen are trained. At first everything was fine, Zakir did not complain about anything, - said Dinis Kuchekaev. - In early December, he fell ill, a cough appeared. He was diagnosed with SARS and was given pills. They treated him in the medical unit, but his brother's condition did not improve, then he was admitted to the hospital. There he went on the mend, and the doctors promised to even write him out. But just before being discharged, Zakir ended up in intensive care. From December 26 to December 29, we could not get through to him. And on December 29, we were informed that Zakir died of bilateral pneumonia…

When the Kuchekaev family was told the tragic news, they thought that Zakir might have been severely beaten. However, the body of the young man was clean, without injuries and bruises. The guy was buried on January 6th. His family is still in shock. “How could this even happen?!” people don't stop asking.

By the way, according to Dinis, the younger brother said that another colleague fell ill with him.

In the military unit near Kovrov, where Dmitry Sokolov picked up the disease, the number of patients goes to dozens. Yes, and military doctors say that the hospital near Moscow is overcrowded with seriously ill servicemen who have become infected in units. According to preliminary data, the number of cases of lung infection is already more than two dozen people.

Since the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was in no hurry to comment on what was happening, frightening assumptions began to appear in the press. So, some media spread the message that the soldiers could die from SARS. However, the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko categorically denied this information.

If this actually happened, then military doctors would have found an opportunity to inform us about this, the head of Rospotrebnadzor told Interfax.

After the commotion arose, the military department reported that the soldiers were serving in various military units of the Western Military District, from where they were taken to the Podolsk hospital due to the negative dynamics of the course of the disease. The military doctors of the hospital held regular consultations with the involvement of leading pulmonologists of the Ministry of Defense and used modern medications and treatment methods. However, the intensive complex treatment undertaken, with the involvement of leading specialists from the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after. A.A. Vishnevsky and the Military Medical Academy. S.M. Kirov, could not turn the tide. The Ministry of Defense believes that "the treatment of all four servicemen was carried out adequately, using all the necessary methods of providing medical care."

However, it should be noted that the military is cunning. They are well aware of the problem of mass morbidity among conscripts. After all, this is not the first outbreak of a deadly virus. So why are young people still dying? The answer was on the surface: the vaccination system does not lend itself to any criticism.

The countdown should start from the year 2000. Recruits get sick because the unit commanders are pulling to the last, not sending them to the hospital. Like, you don’t want to serve, you’re shirking,” commented Valentina Melnikova, a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia. - But the main cause of death in the army is the vaccination system. Soldiers are given four vaccinations at the same time. About a week the body adapts and becomes vulnerable, almost like with AIDS. A person's immune system is completely gone. Any cold can be fatal. And this situation is only in the Ministry of Defense. For example, in the internal troops they instill gradually. One vaccination per month. Therefore, there are no deaths.

According to the human rights activist, we must add to this that undressed soldiers are forced to do exercises in the cold.

The president of the human rights group Citizen. Army. Right” Sergey Krivenko. According to him, the reasons for the incidence of conscripts should also include the failure to provide medical care, interruptions in drug supply, the unpreparedness of military units for the heating season and outsourcing - the involvement of third-party organizations in servicing units. This system was introduced by the former head of the RF Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov. And, as a rule, their services do not reach the military.

Soldiers with pneumonia will receive two weeks' leave

MOSCOW, January 28 - RIA Novosti. Servicemen of the Russian army, who were in hospitals in the Kaliningrad region and the Volga-Urals military district with a diagnosis of pneumonia, after recovery should receive a vacation for half a month, Colonel of Medical Service Viktor Krasnikov, acting head of the Central Military Medical Commission of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Wednesday.

On January 21, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that about 200 servicemen of the Russian army in the Kaliningrad region and the Volga-Urals military district were in hospitals with a diagnosis of pneumonia. As Vladimir Shappo, head of the Main Medical Directorate of the Armed Forces, noted at the time, 106 people are in hospitals in Elani and Yekaterinburg, three of them are in serious condition. About 100 servicemen with the same diagnosis were hospitalized in the Kaliningrad region.

Earlier, one of the soldiers of the garrison - Anatoly Yumatov - died of bilateral pneumonia.

"A soldier who has had pneumonia, if he has no complications, he is given sick leave for 15 days and then he is back in service," Krasnikov told reporters.

At the request of RIA Novosti to provide the latest data on the number of servicemen affected by pneumonia, Krasnikov said that the Central Military Medical Commission does not have such data.

"Only data on (medical) examination (before the start of military service) flock to us," he said.

The complication of the situation due to the incidence of pneumonia in the Elan garrison of the Volga-Urals military district began on December 20. One of the main reasons for the outbreak of the disease was the hypothermia of military personnel who conducted classes, including outside the barracks at a temperature of minus 20 degrees, the Ministry of Defense noted.

In turn, the head of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP), Major General of Justice Alexander Nikitin, said earlier that the GVP opened a criminal case into the death of a serviceman Yumatov from pneumonia in the Elan garrison.

According to Nikitin, the main reason for the death of a soldier, as well as the illness of other soldiers, is a violation of safe service conditions, non-compliance with sanitary and epidemiological standards for placement in the barracks, and a lack of control over the localization of the disease with pneumonia.

According to the GVP, based on the results of the prosecutor's check, a prosecutor's warning was issued to 23 military officials in the Baltic Fleet (11) and in the Volga-Ural Military District (12), a presentation was made to the commander of the Baltic Fleet and the commander of the PurVO. A number of military leaders have been suspended from their official duties.

By order of Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky, all garrisons and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should be subject to inspections to ensure that commanders comply with sanitary and epidemiological standards and control the life of military personnel in order to avoid outbreaks of diseases.

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The situation exactly resembles the situation that took place in the same military unit in 2011. Then, too, the responsible authorities began checking the causes of diseases and deaths of young people, and the office of the Voronezh Ombudsman also presented its findings. Then one of the reasons for the mass disease in the garrison was the lack of hot water. Also, the servicemen did not have the opportunity to dry the damp "Yudashkin" uniforms. The office of the Voronezh Ombudsman directly stated that the new military uniform of the soldiers does not meet the requirements. "The premises of the medical center, the staff of its employees and the provision of medicines in the Ostrogozhsk military unit do not meet the needs," the military prosecutor's office stated. 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A discussion of what happened among relatives and acquaintances of soldiers and former servicemen of this unit has now unfolded on social networks. Those relatives who are outside Voronezh are forced to use fragmentary information: it became known that the military authorities showed increased zeal in confiscating mobile phones. So the officers are now trying to stop the spread of information in order to downplay the disease. The most common opinion expressed in the "Army Notebook" group on the Web is that after that first epidemic, the military authorities "put things in order" in the unit that received notoriety. The military who served in this unit note that their health was superbly monitored. But, apparently, this period was a kind of "golden mean", timelessness. When attention and control from the side weakened, everything in the Ostrogozhsk military unit returned to normal. 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