Kaliningrad doctor Elena Belaya personally gave the order to kill the baby

Elena Belaya, the chief physician of Kaliningrad maternity hospital No. 4, who was convicted of murdering a premature baby, personally ordered to stop providing medical care to the baby and administer a drug to suppress vital functions. This is evidenced on September 16 by a recording of her conversation with the staff at the disposal of Izvestia.

"Why did you tell the woman that he (the child. — Ed.) alive? When you had none at all! Why didn't you tell the head? <...> So you say he died during transportation or whatever you want, then say it," Belaya said when the newborn was still alive.

After that, she came to the intensive care unit of the maternity hospital and persuaded the anesthesiologist-intensive care physician Elina Sushkevich to stop providing medical care to the baby and inject a drug into his body to suppress vital functions. The doctor obeyed.

In addition, Belaya, threatening with dismissal, forced her subordinates to enter false information in the documentation that the child had allegedly already been stillborn.

The press service of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation confirmed the authenticity of this recording, and also reported the presence of a videotape of a meeting led by Belaya, where the murder of a newborn was discussed. The department noted that the relevant manipulations with the child were carried out intentionally and aimed at avoiding a deterioration in statistical indicators. This was confirmed by other maternity hospital doctors who were present at the discussion and at the time of the crime.

Based on the recording, the investigators recreated the whole picture of what happened. It also turned out that the drug administered to the child was 20 times higher than the dosage allowed for an adult.

"The defendants deliberately filed a motion for a criminal case to be considered with the participation of jurors, hoping for their leniency. However, the evidence presented fully exposed the doctors in what they had done, which led to a reasonable and fair guilty verdict, and subsequently to the imposition of appropriate punishment," the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported.

The lawyer of the victims in the case, Larisa Guseva, in turn, reported on the satisfaction of the injured party with the verdict. The defense of the accused, on the contrary, filed a complaint.

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On August 11, the Moscow Regional Court sentenced Kaliningrad doctors Sushkevich and Belaya to nine and 9.5 years in the case of the murder of a baby in a maternity hospital. In addition, they were banned from practicing medicine for three years.

In November 2018, a woman was admitted to maternity hospital No. 4 in Kaliningrad, who gave birth to a boy weighing about 700 g at an early stage of pregnancy. The investigation found that Belaya and Sushkevich decided to kill the child in order not to spoil the statistics in the hospital. An expensive drug was required to maintain the vital activity of the baby. In this regard, Belaya allegedly decided not to waste the resources of the maternity hospital. According to investigators, she instructed the child to be given a dose of magnesium sulfate and to write in the birth history that he was stillborn. The doctors did not admit their guilt.

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