Doctors at a heart center in Dagestan demand the removal of the head doctor, because of which they cannot leave work for the mosque without a written statement.
The team of the Dagestan Center for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Makhachkala sent an open letter to the leadership of the republic with a request to remove the head of the center, Arslankan Kandaurov. Among the complaints against him are not only personnel decisions and work organization, but also the procedure by which employees, in order to go to the Friday prayer at the mosque for 30-60 minutes in their free time from the activity, have to write a statement, writes the local publication "Esek New".
The Ministry of Health of Dagestan responded to the requests of employees. By order of the leadership of the Republic, the Minister of Health will come to the site and meet with the center's management and staff.
In an open letter, the employees claim that before the arrival of the new director, the center performed two open-heart surgeries almost every day and a large number of endovascular surgeries, including those unique to the region, and the waiting list for patients was about two months. Now, according to the doctors, the center refuses to perform operations on complex patients, and some surgeons are removed from the operation process.
In the letter, the doctors also indicate specific complaints about the work organization. According to them, before the arrival of the new director, the center routinely performed coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG), mini-access CABG, valve prostheses and plastic surgeries, combined surgeries as well as multi-valve replacement unique to the region and Bental, David and Ozaki surgeries. The number of surgeries, according to the letter, depends on the quotas of the Ministry of Health and the territorial compulsory insurance program, and not on the capabilities of the center. At the same time, requests to purchase a computed tomography and angiograph and to increase the quotas for high-tech medical treatment remained unanswered for years.