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🔈 Cynical scheme of systematic extortion from doctors in Kyiv
Two heads of departments and the medical director of one of the capital’s municipal hospitals have been notified of suspicions of demanding money. In early January they organized a scheme of systematically demanding money in exchange for the ability to perform surgical operations and obtain deferrals from mobilization.
Every Friday doctors had to give the department head 1 thousand hryvnias for each operation or procedure performed on patients. Those who refused to pay were threatened with being stripped of the right to operate, cancellation of their exemption, and reassignment to “paperwork” duties.
The money was collected by one of the managers, who acted as the “treasurer”: he kept the counts and passed part of the funds to higher management. He kept lists of each doctor’s operations and himself determined the amount that each had to hand over to the “black fund” for the week. The source of the money—personal pocket or patients—did not matter.
Law enforcement officers documented the Friday collections for several months. It was established that a single doctor was forced to pay more than 40 thousand hryvnias for the ability to work.
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