You could see this only in a movie about concentration camps or in the museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But it is happening today in the suburbs of St. Petersburg
Officially
According to the St. Petersburg Committee on sotspolitike for the maintenance of a disabled child in the orphanage-boarding from the budget now stands 25,5 thousand rubles a month. Of these, about 200 rubles each day is spent on food pupil. In general, at the expense of the money covers all items of expenditure: maintenance of buildings, purchase of medicines, staff salaries, etc., except for purchases of medical equipment and repairs.
From orphanage near St. Petersburg in the hospital brought in dystrophic. Adults, professionals shrug: such a diagnosis. Helplessness, bordering the inhumanity, are showing: the boarding staff, officials responsible for it, doctors and subordinate to these officials, prosecutors, record violations and nothing changes in the situation, children's ombudsmen ... And those who are trying to fight - mothers of seriously ill children and volunteers charitable organizations, "interested persons" announce "who understands nothing provocateurs" and "enemies of the orphanage."
On the verge of
Svetlana Lomakina with a 3-year-old son Artem hit the Children's City Hospital № 1 at the end of last year. Then in the same hospital from the orphanage № 4 (DDI number 4) for children with mental development in the suburbs of St. Petersburg - Pavlovsk, brought 4-year-old Nastya. It was this girl Svetlana (doctor, a mother of three children) in April is trying to adopt.
- When I saw the baby in the hospital, she was very exhausted, - says Svetlana. - In the summer baby looked fine, but here - skeletons. I do not have accurate data, I judge by appearance, I think, in December, she weighed no more than 8 kilograms.
- Orphans lying on the floor above - they always put separately - continues Lomakin. - I, like other mothers, often went to Nastya to the House to change diapers, feed, sit with her (to take care of orphans and "refuseniks" in the VSD number 1 to help volunteers and compassionate parents. - NP). Next to the cribs we saw the same thin children: 11-year-old George and 10-year-old Sergei - the type of kilograms of 10, seven-year old Ksenia - 8 pounds (names do not call for ethical reasons. - NP). But most of all we were struck ten Ilya Duvakov (name and surname of the child named Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. - NP).
Photo of a boy sent to the editors of Novaya Gazeta and a few other media mother of two children, Maria Karabanov. And with it a letter sent to all authorities peterburzhenkoy: "I appeal for help, not for himself but for those who ask for himself unable to ...
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For several months I have with my child was treated in the VSD number 1 ... closely adjoined to the hospital life, discovered the problem of child objectors who come to the hospital from orphanages. Their total neglect has made me a painful impression, but the true horror caused a condition in which children are hard ... they terribly exhausted, depleted, many are skeletons covered with skin, too small for his age. I learned that all children have infected me with his terrible condition, came from the same place - DDI number 4 in Pavlovsk ... Then my suspicions have arisen, in which the terrible reality to believe - really sick helpless orphans, entirely dependent on those someone nagging them the state can not feed the banal? The last straw was meeting with Ilya. When I first saw him, I felt bad - something like that I had only seen in movies about the war, which showed the concentration camp prisoners. When the boy was taken to hospital, he was so weak that he could not eat by yourself (in the nose was a tip for feeding) and had difficulty breathing. But then his condition improved, he ate with spoons, I've seen - greedily swallowing the limited amount of food, which allowed him to give due dystrophy. And ... well! No matter how cynical it sounds, but the picture is a little Ilya recovered compared with the way the look on admission to hospital. Now he has been discharged, and I am very worried that he would soon again be on the verge of death ... "
Ilya Duvakova hospitalized in serious condition in the VSD number 1 of Pavlovian boarding November 26, 2010 and was discharged in a satisfactory 13 January 2010. "New" managed to find a volunteer NGO "Our Children" Catherine Kalizhskuyu caring for the boy in the hospital.
- The first day a nurse tried to feed Elijah through the probe, but to no avail - all the food comes back - says Catherine. - On the second day we started feeding him with a spoon. It is not easy. Immediately the whole batch to give not: no more than 2-3 tablespoons of broth or oatmeal and 1-2 tablespoons of tea or water and wait 20-30 minutes. Then another 2-3 tablespoons ...
In the experience of volunteers, even in a hospital where such patients do not happen simultaneously over a decade, rarely a nurse or nurse can spend so much time on one. In boarding school is much more difficult. Just a DDI number 4 today live 553 disabled children. For 12-15 students in each group, which accounts for (by the state!) 1 nurse and a teacher, in some groups because of personnel shortage of educators do not.
- First, - sighs Catherine - Ilya constantly sleeping or lying motionless, even to sit down but could not. Then he began to take a ball, clutching it in his hands. Later, we seated him in pads and playing dice ... Before you leave, I helped doctor to weigh the child - nearly 13 kg, and when you receive - we are a doctor looking at a map - about 11 ...
- Back in the fall Ilya went to strollers, play in the playroom, sitting in a chair, we have taught him - he was holding a spoon - recalls a volunteer charitable organization "Plantain" Olga, Custodian Duvakova in an orphanage. - Who is the photo by those who knew Ilya know it is difficult ...
Closed for chickenpox
His first published photos of the boy on the Internet has caused shock and outrage: "Fascists," "fire", to "punish", "on trial". St. Petersburg officials the next morning made a rebuttal:
- Condition of the child due to a serious diagnosis - explained chairman of the Committee on Urban sotspolitike Alexander Rzhanenkov - rather than the extreme exhaustion from malnutrition. Boarding school provides first aid and health-social care, good enough to get commentary from the experts.
I called the orphanage. However, not so much agree with the director of DDI № 4 Galina Plemyannikovoy about the meeting - to hear it could not. Instead, the director replied Secretary:
- Come to us can not - in a boarding quarantine of chickenpox, and lead all the conversations with the Committee on sotspolitike.
Returned to the committee. Met fully equipped:
- On January 20 at DDI number 4 - prosecutor's check. Wait for the outcome. Press exit to the boarding school to organize after 6 February, when the quarantine is over, - promised spokeswoman Catherine Mayboroda.
The same day, the orphanage staff member admitted Svetlana Agapitovoy, Ombudsman for Children in St. Petersburg. After this Agapitova said: "Picture a boy frightens a person who is not familiar with the situation ... the little patients in this state in the DDI number 4 is not one and not two. Only in this department there are about a hundred ... Ilya - not the most urgent case ... But to say that his condition - the result of poor feeding and care, there are no grounds. The fact that there are violations in a boarding school, evidenced by all the previous inspection, the Ombudsman agreed, but wondered: Is not the whole story the next stage of conflict management institutions with volunteers? "
A Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov even doubted: "The scandal surrounding the orphanage - a manifestation of the conflict between his leadership and charitable foundations.
Correct idea immediately caught Galina Plemyannikova, in a single comment nodding toward opponents: "slander boarding!»