A social activist reported on the illegal detention of patients in a Kuzbass boarding school

Able-bodied patients of the Prokopievsky Neuropsychiatric Boarding School (PSNI) in the Kemerovo region were intentionally not released from the institution even after the termination of the social service contract. Public activist Alexey Mukhin told Izvestia about this on January 29.

He received his first complaints about illegal detention in 2021: the guests, being able-bodied people with disabilities, claimed that they could not leave the institution and asked for help. According to the patients, they were "held captive" and regularly fed spoiled food.

"Now the boarding school is suing me because I distributed a video where a beaten disabled man is being held on a chain. The PSNI staff said that he was banging his head against the wall, although this was not the case. This bullying has been going on systematically for four years now," Mukhin said.

The tragedy in Kuzbass: Nine patients died in a neuropsychiatric boarding school.

What is known about the causes of the tragedy and the progress of the investigation

On the same day, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Kemerovo region reported that in January of this year, nine patients of the Prokopiev boarding school for people with mental disorders died, in which influenza A had previously broken out. Most of the dead were elderly people with chronic diseases. Decompensation (malfunction) of heart failure, circulatory system diseases, thromboembolism and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are listed among the causes of death.

Roszdravnadzor in the Kemerovo Region announced on January 29 that it would check the quality of medical care provided to the guests of the Prokopyevsky neuropsychiatric boarding school, where nine people died in January this year. Ilya Seredyuk, the governor of the region, noted that a commission from the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Kuzbass has been working on the site since January 24.

Later it became known that the investigative authorities were investigating the causes and circumstances of the death of six more people from among the boarding school residents in Prokopyevsk.

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