{"id":6400,"date":"2016-06-14T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/she-survived-in-spite-of-her-treatment\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:39:36","slug":"she-survived-in-spite-of-her-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/she-survived-in-spite-of-her-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"She Survived, in Spite of Her Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patients call the Yekaterinburg Hospital, located at 37 Kamskaya Street, the \u201cfinal journey\u201d. This hospital is for patients with tuberculosis and other severe diagnoses. They usually leave this place in black bags.<\/p>\n

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TB facilities generally do not like drug-dependent people, and try to avoid them. But here, the procedures are especially strict. For example, even a smear-positive patient may be released from the hospital if he breaks the internal rules. “Later he comes back anyway, – says Natalia. \u2013 Though not on his own feet, but in a blanket, going straight to the intensive care unit…”<\/p>\n

“You lie in your bed at night, thinking and suffering. Dying feels scary. But you can\u2019t just go and ask your doctor, he won\u2019t tell you anything. In the morning, you go to the smoking room and see black bags carried past you. Three people are carried away every week. You stand there, and they are dragging him, with his head bumping the stairs… People say: “If you go to Kamskaya, it is the same as going to the cemetery.” That\u00a0is how another patient, Aleksandr, described his stay in this hospital.<\/div>\n
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It has been like this here for a long time. Three years ago, activists were agitating about the fact that there were no drugs in the hospital to treat drug-resistant TB, no ICUs, no specialists apart from the TB treatment doctor, no care for bedridden patients, very poor food, no consumables \u2013 syringes, etc., no drug treatment doctor to help drug-dependent patients (even though most of the patients use drugs), no hot water. Even patients with active tuberculosis had to take a bus to go to the AIDS centre to get their medication, making people around them hysterical with their protective masks. Now they bring ARV drugs to the hospital. Everything else is still the same. When we asked what to bring them, patients asked for\u2026 2 ml syringes for the whole department.<\/div>\n
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