“They offered to jump to the ambulance: an Irkutsk schoolboy with a broken leg was refused to be transported on a stretcher

The prosecutor’s office of the Irkutsk region will check media reports about a teenager with a broken leg, who was offered to “jump” to the ambulance on a healthy leg, explaining this by the lack of a stretcher. The boy fell down the school stairs and injured his leg on one of the first school days after the end of the New Year holidays. The teenager, who suffered from severe pain and could not get up from a chair, was helped by high school students – they put him on mats and informed him to the ambulance.

According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, with reference to the story of the schoolboy’s mother, there was a seated gurney in the ambulance, which could theoretically be used to transport the injured boy. The diagnosis made in the hospital turned out to be serious – a fragmentary fracture of the upper part of the thigh with a displacement, while the doctors immediately reported that with injuries of this severity, independent movement was excluded.

The boy spent two weeks in the hospital, he will have several more months of recovery.

According to the teenager’s mother, at the ambulance station they explained to her that the paramedic did not recognize the fracture, moreover, there was no x-ray in the ambulance to determine the nature of the injury.

The head doctor of the Irkutsk ambulance, Igor Zhuravlev, has already announced the start of an internal audit, which requires a detailed disassembly and questioning of all participants in the incident, from the boy’s parents to the medical team.