Doctor to face trial in Rivne for bribe over disability status

A doctor who took a bribe and promised to influence a decision on disability will be tried in the Rivne region. According to law enforcement, the orthopedic traumatologist received a bribe from a patient, for which he promised to influence experts to recognize her as a person with a disability.

This was reported by Oksana Zhuzhelska, a spokeswoman for the regional prosecutor's office.

According to her information, a 41-year-old orthopedic traumatologist received a bribe from a patient. For 2,000 US dollars, the man promised to influence doctors to recognize the woman as a person with a disability.

For two years, the doctor provided discharges for the patient's treatment in a hospital and helped in collecting and processing all the necessary documents for the subsequent receipt of a disability group. This year, in February, he referred the woman to a specialized institution, where an expert team works to assess the daily functioning of the person, whose members the doctor was supposed to influence.

She also noted that, on the advice of the accused, the woman gave a 4,500 hryvnia bribe to a nurse at another medical facility for organizing the issuance and signing of a specialist consultation report with a confirmed diagnosis. The indictment against this medical worker was sent to court.

Previously, employees of the Bukovina TCP were exposed for taking bribes for service in the rear.

We also wrote that the police detained an MSEC official for taking a bribe to help an evader.