The Associated press reported that two Russians in quarentine, escaped the hospitals they were in, in Moscow. One of the patients even jumped from a hospital window to escape her quarantine. The other broke out by shorting out an electronic lock. Both of the patients were women.
Both patients were kept in isolation because of a possible infection of the new Coronavirus. They told reporters that they fled from the hospitals because of “uncooperative doctors, poor conditions and fear they would become infected.”
– This is the problem with trying to be open and honest when reportng outbreaks like the Ebola, SARS, and the new Coronavirus, It ends up causing fear and makes people react irrationally, as these stories tend to cause panic; when they are only supposed to bring awareness–
Russian health authorities haven’t commented on their complaints.
The outbreak of the virus in China that has already infected some 45,000 people worldwide. However In Russia, there have only been two cases of Coronavirus reported; but authorities took extreme measures anyway, to prevent the new disease from spreading. They hospitalized hundreds of people who returned from China as a precaution. As have many countries world wide.
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The AP reported- A lot of those who have been quarantined in different Russian hospitals have complained about terrible conditions of the isolation rooms and lack of cooperation from doctors, uncertain about quarantine protocols.
There have been even worse reports from China about how officials are treating sick patients and others in quarantine facilities. But the Communist country has done a good job keeping curtent news of the epidemic crisis from reaching the outside world.
The AP’s Story continued– Both women said their hospital ordeals began after returning from Hainan, a tropical region of China popular with Russian tourists.
In a lengthy account on Instagram published Friday, a woman with the screen name of GuzelNeder said her son came down with a cough and a fever of 37.3 C (99.2 F) four days after the family’s return to their home in the city of Samara. She called emergency services, who diagnosed the boy as having a viral respiratory infection and who said the mother and the son must go to a hospital for coronavirus tests.
The hospital promised test results within three days, then extended it to five, she said, and meanwhile the boy responded to treatment with medication and an inhalator, she wrote. When she tried to press for results, hospital personnel obstructed her, she said.
Meanwhile, she had become concerned about lax procedures in the hospital, saying that some medical personnel came to the isolation area without masks or threw their protective clothing on the floor.
Her anxiety soared on the fifth day, when she began to feel badly. She asked her husband to bring her a home pregnancy test, and “after two minutes of wringing my hands in anticipation, it came on the screen — PREGNANT,” she wrote.
Her husband argued with the doctor that she and their son should be released because of her condition and concern of infection. The doctor said they had to be held for 14 days even if the virus test came back negative.
“My son was hysterical,” she wrote. “There was no exit for us other than to leave the hospital without authorization, through the window.”
Police later questioned her at home, but no charges have been reported. “Everyone in my family is alive and healthy, thank god,” she wrote.The other woman, Alla Ilyina, said in an Instagram post she came down with a sore throat several days after returning to St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, from Hainan.
Ilyina called emergency services, and medics brought her to a hospital for coronavirus testing, promising to let her go after 24 hours. The next day she was told she tested negative for the virus, but had to remain quarantined for two weeks.
“Wild,” Ilyina wrote. “All three tests showed I was completely healthy, so why the hell the quarantine?
”Her isolation room was dire, she told the Fontanka newspaper — no books, no shampoo, no Wi-Fi a wastebasket that was never emptied, the door secured by an electronic lock.
Frustrated, she figured out how to short-circuit the electronic lock and escaped from the hospital on Friday.Neither the hospital nor police have followed up on her escape, which leads her to believe her health is OK.
“If I were sick, they would have swamped me with phone calls,” Fontanka quoted her as saying.On Tuesday evening, Russian media reported that the hospital reported Ilyina’s escape to the police, and that a criminal investigation could be launched into the incident.
Both women did not comment on their situations to The Associated Press.
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