Russian Doctors Say They Weren't Warned Patients Were Nuclear Accident Victims

[dixiegrrrrl]

remember that mysterious nuclear missile explosion of a few days ago????
Looks as if the Russian gov. did not watch the Chernobyl series...

The three injured men arrived at the hospital around 4:30 pm, naked and wrapped in translucent plastic bags. The state of the patients made staff suspect they were dealing with something very serious. But the only information they had at the time was that there had been an explosion at a nearby military site around noon.

“No one — neither hospital directors, nor Health Ministry officials, nor regional officials or the governor — notified staff that the patients were radioactive,” one of the clinic’s surgeons told The Moscow Times by phone this week. “The hospital workers had their suspicions, but nobody told them to protect themselves.”

The hospital was Arkhangelsk Regional Clinical Hospital, a public healthcare center in Russia’s far north, and the day was last Thursday, Aug. 8. After the explosion, radiation spiked to as much as 20 times its normal level for about 30 minutes in the region’s second largest city of Severodvinsk. Russia’s state nuclear agency Rosatom has reported that the accident killed five of its staff members.

Russian authorities are keeping the circumstances surrounding the explosion shrouded in mystery. With government agencies releasing information piecemeal amid a mass of contradictions, the state’s response to the accident echoes its behavior after Chernobyl, the catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident in then-Soviet Ukraine.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/16/exclusive-russian-doctors-say-they-werent-warned-patients-were-nuclear-accident-victims-a66896

[democratisphere]

1. Putin and his regime should be removed from office for THIS atrocity.

What a scunbag!

[BigmanPigman]

2. I just heard about this on Rachel Maddow's show.

Those doctors stripped and wrapped in plastic really is unnerving. Knowing how truthful Russia is with its own citizens' safety would have made me pack up and leave that area ASAP! Chernobyl had to be covered and sealed in cement. The radioactive forests around it were dug up and buried. It is still leaking too.

Here is Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations visit to Chernobyl and Ukraine. Skip to 10:00 mark for Chernobyl.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xme9k

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. The article has some very bad details.

Lies, denials, cover-ups ( officials even collected and destroyed the hospital records) and no one knows the truth of how bad the accident was, so many people have been exposed but do not know it.
the doctors at the hospital were told they could go to Moscow for tests, then that was cancelled.

really sounds exactly like Chernobyl.

[Takket]

4. the russian government wasn't honest and forthcoming with its citizens?

I'm STUNNED

[mountain grammy]

5. one of the most corrupt governments ever

And the president is in bed with them.