The doctor - about the queues of the ambulances: "This is a loss of health and anger at the whole world"

Petersburgers again began to notice queues of ambulances in the city, as it was in the spring and summer of 2020. Judging by the photos on social networks, lines of 15-20 cars were seen near the Pokrovskaya hospital and Hospital No. 40 of the Kurortny district in Sestroretsk.

According to the chairman of the city HEALTH committee, Dmitry Lisovets, queues at some hospitals accepting patients with covid-19 "arose once" - on May 20, and officials are aware of them. Now, according to him, this problem does not exist. “On the 21st, new capacities were introduced to receive patients. I am talking about the Lenexpo site, as well as the 38th Semashko Hospital. Actually, there are no queues now, as we can see,” he told reporters.

The Komzdrav also explained to RBC Petersburg that they do not specifically monitor queues in hospitals, since their number is usually insignificant, and added that, in principle, this is a normal phenomenon during a pandemic. Clinics can't keep all arriving patients in the waiting room - it's not safe, so people sometimes wait in ambulances.

Lev Averbakh, chief physician of the Coris private ambulance, meanwhile, told RBC Petersburg that the situation looks normal only for officials. “Whose incompetence for the third time in a row during the year creates lines of ambulances whose function is to save people, and not stand in lines for hours? How can you not set up logistics in a year and why does this happen all the time?” he asks.