President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced the inadmissibility of corruption in the medical sphere against the background of the arrest of 35 orthopedic traumatologists.
“I know very well the course of this operation: I controlled. This is not today, did not start yesterday. I warned this minister about it. But today 35 people [detained]. I am sure that this is not all those who should be there with They are sitting next to them, “said Lukashenko at a meeting with the Minister of Health, the Prosecutor General and Chairman of the State Security Committee on Monday, the BelTA Agency reports.
He recalled against Orthopedic doctors, initiated back in 2018. “It was not just suggested to people lying on the operating table which imported orthopedic spare parts to the body into the body, and a bribe received from foreigners. In some 300 thousand, € 650 thousand discovered only at home,” said Lukashenko. At the same time, the president warned that those, “who is on the misfortune of people makes it, will never be mercy.” The head of state compared corruption with war. “Why start war? At the heart of any war – injustice and corruption,” said the Belarusian leader.
He instructed the head of the Ministry of Health Dmitry Pinevich to visit the investigative insulator to decide the fate of the delayed for corruption of orthopedic traumatologists. According to the president, it is necessary to decide what to do with these people, taking into account the request to take them on bail. “Not to forgive, but to take on the bars after they compensate for the huge damage to the state,” said Lukashenko. – To send them to your decision, in some structure for work. Naturally, in the specialty “. The head of state called the sad and the fact that “the doctor’s attending physician,” who not once and the president examined. “I am upset by this fact, but the law is the law, he is one for everyone,” he stressed.