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Pensioner Elza Gazizova wrote letters to Vladimir Putin and the governor of the Chelyabinsk region with a request to keep the nursing department in the village of Ust-Bagaryak. The woman was supported by 100 people who signed the text of the appeal. This angered the district head Aminov. The official called the retiree.
“He said nasty things and hung up,” Elza Gazizova told 74.ru reporters.
Ust-Bagaryak Hospital was built in the 1950s. At that time, there were several departments in the institution. Today, the ambulance station has been preserved and a center for general practitioners has been set up in one of the old buildings.
2338 inhabitants of the rural agglomeration are served by two doctors on two sites. According to Elza Gazizova, the sword of Damocles has been hovering over the Ust-Bagaryak nursing service for 25 years because of the government decree on the optimization of medicine. Each new district head understood this decree in his own way, sought to close all small medical institutions.
According to the woman, in 2010 the head of the district invited those who wanted to keep the medical institution to participate in its repair. The retiree said “the whole world participated”.
Elza Gazizova said that on March 17, residents turned to the head of administration of Ust-Bagaryak, Lyudmila Mukhutdinova, and asked to keep the nursing service.
Local residents and department staff believe that the closure will lead to people having to seek medical help in Kunashak (100 kilometers) or Chelyabinsk (140 kilometers). In addition, the nurses of the establishment will be left without work. Today, the service has one doctor, seven nurses and two cooks.
The district administration has indicated that it does not plan to close the service, but that there is no longer a doctor because the specialist is on sick leave. However, the village chief admitted that the department is not fully charged, and therefore does not justify the funds invested in it.
