Lawyers of Kaliningrad doctors Belaya and Sushkevich appealed the verdict.

The defense of the chief physician of Kaliningrad maternity hospital No. 4, Elena Belaya, accused of organizing the murder of a baby, and anesthesiologist-intensive care unit Elina Sushkevich, accused of his murder, filed a complaint against the verdict. Lawyer Larisa Guseva informed Izvestia about this on September 16.

Prior to that, on August 11, lawyer Vyacheslav Zhukovsky said that Sushkevich's defense intends to appeal the verdict. According to the lawyer, the trial that preceded the guilty verdict was unfair, and the jurors did not have all the information.

However, the Izvestia editorial office has at its disposal an extract from the videotape of the meeting held on November 6, 2018 in Belaya's office after the birth of the child. The head doctor demanded that her subordinates change the baby's medical history in order to avoid negative statistics.

Confirmation of the experience: Kaliningrad doctors convicted of the death of a baby

Why was it necessary to re-sentence Elina Sushkevich and Elena Belaya?

On August 11, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Kaliningrad doctors Sushkevich and Belaya to 9 and 9.5 years in the case of the murder of a baby in a maternity hospital. In addition, they were banned from practicing medicine for three years.

In November 2018, a woman was admitted to maternity hospital No. 4 in Kaliningrad, who gave birth to a boy weighing about 700 g at an early stage of pregnancy. The investigation found that Belaya and Sushkevich decided to kill the child in order not to spoil the statistics in the hospital.

It was later clarified that an expensive drug was required to maintain the vital activity of the baby. In this regard, Belaya allegedly decided not to waste the resources of the maternity hospital. According to investigators, she instructed the child to be given a dose of magnesium sulfate and to write in the birth history that he was stillborn. The doctors did not admit their guilt.

In December 2020, the Kaliningrad Regional Court acquitted the doctors. Then the prosecutor's office appealed the decision, and in May 2021, the court overturned the acquittal of Belaya and Sushkevich.

In September 2022, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Belaya and Sushkevich to 9.5 years and 9 years in prison, respectively. In December 2023, the Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeals against the doctors' verdict. Later, on October 2, 2024, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation sent the case for reconsideration, leaving the doctors in custody.

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