BSMU Associate Professor Addresses Kachanava: Dialogue Will Be Wherever Belarusians Want
- 12.11.2020, 14:53
It's a strong response from the Belarusian medical doctor.
"There will be no dialogue on the streets, inform them," Natallia Kachanava told about the protesters. Mikita Salavei, a chief freelance specialist of the Health Committee of Minsk City Executive Committee on infectious and parasitic diseases and associate professor of the Infectious Diseases Department of BSMU, responded to her on his Facebook page.
"Mrs Kachanava! I hope that such an address will be typical for slaves. After all, this is how officials and administrators take doctors now. They believe we must treat everyone and all the time. Meanwhile, we are not allowed to express our position, protect our illegally detained colleagues, and stand near hospitals, I stress, outside of working hours, on weekends. They detain, beat us for it. We have obligations and no rights. Oh well. So, you have mentioned the dialogue. You do not want to communicate on the streets. Well, Facebook is also a great ground for dialogue.
Now I keep to the point. I can enumerate factors me and many other medical professionals cannot tolerate today:
1. Endless violence of law enforcers against civilians. These are beatings, shootings, torture, rape of the best representatives of our people. Because not the best people ignore it. That is why there are so many medical professionals, athletes, cultural workers, university teachers, IT specialists, workers and representatives of many other professions on the streets of the city today. We have spent endless working hours in hospitals since March to help coronavirus patients, made beds to, finally, provide normal specialized care, not to treat hundreds of patients with injuries you had inflicted, which most doctors last saw only on the pictures in the textbooks of military surgery. We have demanded, demand and will demand to stop all violence and punish those responsible for it. In the context of the legal state, you mention so often.
2. Imitation of elections. This time, 80 per cent of falsifications did not bring you luck. The people have become smarter, more active and creative. There appeared independent online platforms with more than a million subscribers, white ribbons, specially folded ballots. Your defeat is evident. If you had had any conscience and dignity, you would have peacefully left our long-suffering Belarus and given it a chance to finally turn into a normal developed country, not a pariah one. However, you miss both conscience and dignity. You decided, as always, to spit in people's faces. The slaves will swallow it and forget it the next day. We have not forgotten. We will not forget. The new elections will certainly happen. Without blue fingers.
3. Lies about everything and at all levels. For example, let's take an acute problem of coronavirus. How long will we tell tales about morbidity rate a little exceeding a thousand? Of course, it's an achievement that official morbidity figures, at least in the last two days, have become more credible. May anything change with the death rates? I don't want and won't explain to the relatives of the deceased how only four people in the republic die from coronavirus, and their father was among them. One might have treated him badly... No, ladies and gentlemen, the treatment was perfect in most cases. Otherwise, people would have died faster, and their number would have been higher. Even the best hospitals in the world have a minimal mortality rate in ICUs with coronavirus patients of 16-20%, on average, it's about 40% and can reach 60%.
A schoolchild can count the number of ICU beds occupied by coronavirus patients with the mortality rate... I would also like to recall the dozens of junior, paramedical workers and doctors who died from coronavirus while performing their professional duties. Since March, one has not found time to commemorate them in any way, at least in the form of a commemorative list on the Health Ministry's website.
4. Expulsion of students from medical and other universities. Current events at BSMU are worthy of the best comic talk-shows. Many "expelled or not" students cannot even get their status. They cannot receive an enrollment termination order. Teachers are told that students have been expelled for a disciplinary violation, not the expression of their civic position and not because someone on TV said such students had no place in universities. That's the place they belong to. Our most worthy students have been expelled. They study with flying colours. They demonstrate initiative and desire to change the country's future for the better. There is one encouraging thing: soon these students will return to their universities. It does not relate to the managing staff of the universities, which sullied their reputation with involvement in repressions. They will have to look for another job.
5. Detentions, beatings, arrests, dismissals of our colleagues. Many of them worked from morning until night for months risking their lives. One can hold republican Concilium on Okrestina; our specialists are already there. Many of them have the highest categories, degrees and titles. It is your big mistake. You went over the top trying to suppress everybody and everything. However, it's a blessing in disguise. The medical sphere had problems with solidarity. Now it is growing stronger. Teams and entire institutions unite. Video messages appear like hot buns on a stove. Now even the most apolitical physicians have realized their true "value" for the state, seen what kind of "gratitude" awaits them for their work, realized the essential need to fight for their rights and freedoms. You will fail with slavery.
I tried to express the positions of mine and my colleagues in an available and frank way. We will be glad to see your answer. Please, provide answers only on the matter, no mess. We have already had enough of it in the previous 26 years. As for "there will be no dialogue in the streets ... Dialogue, Natallia Ivanauna, will be wherever the people of Belarus want," said Mikita Salavei.