Female Patient Crawls To X-Ray Room At A Hospital

Story By: Anna Guran, Sub EditorAlex CopeAgency:Central European News

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This is the moment a female patient crawls on the floor in order to reach the x-ray room as reportedly there was nobody to help her at a hospital.

The incident took place at Krasnoturinsk Hospital, in Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Ural Mountains, southeastern Russia.

The video which was taken by a person who attended the clinic shows a woman moving on her buttocks on a hospital floor.

The camera follows her as she takes a corner to continue on crawling on the floor without any assistance from the hospital staff.

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According to local media, the video was brought to the Sverdlovsk prosecutor’s attention after it was posted on a community group on the social media website, Odnoklassniki.

The person who took the video told local media that the patient was left by the paramedics who brought her.

The prosecutor’s office told RIA, the Russian news agency, that after the patient went through an x-ray examination, the hospital employees left her in a waiting area as they went to collect the x-ray images.

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The patient then reportedly crawled towards the x-ray room at which point an employee sent her back.

The prosecutor is currently investigating the incident.

They added: “The investigation is being conducted on the subject of accessibility, infrastructure and quality of medical care, [and] we will take the appropriate response.”

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