A doctor was caught on camera
beating a 45-year-old heart patient after surgery as he lay tied to an
intensive care bed at the Federal Cardio-Surgery Centre hospital in Perm,
Russia. The patient died shortly afterwards and the doctor, Doctor Andrey Votyakov,
blamed the attack on his being exhausted after a busy 24-hour shift.
In the shocking 30-second video
which went viral on the Russian web, it appears the Doctor was having an
argument with the restrained patient, then the Doctor - still in his surgical
scrubs - hits the patient on the head and then punched him near his heart,
right on the area where he'd been opened up. Unfortunately for the doctor, he
was unaware that the assault was being filmed on a camera focused on the
intensive care bed.
Votyakov claimed: "It was a
hard day after a 24 hour shift. As soon as I came into the room with my team he
started to call me various derogative names. And I just got blown away by it.
We had spent so much time with his very complicated case to help him recover
and he said not a single word of gratitude. And then the chronic tiredness
added to it. I got carried away, and I punched him several times at the
presence of my colleagues. We continued the treatment after the incident, but
sadly the patient died. I am very sorry for what happened and I want to
apologise first of all to the patient himself and his family."
The doctor has been fired from
his job and faces jail term for the attack, as the Police are investigating if
the beatings led to the man's death. The attack happened in February and the
footage was recently made public.
