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4 Apr, 2019 14:24

Paramedic given the boot for checking unconscious patient’s condition with his foot (VIDEO)

Paramedic given the boot for checking unconscious patient’s condition with his foot (VIDEO)

A paramedic in Russia’s Far East was sacked from his job after a video surfaced online of him examining the condition of an unresponsive patient by knocking him on the head with his boot.

A woman in the town of Blagoveshchensk in the Amur Region called the medics after she saw a man lying in the street. He collapsed due to having too much to drink and was at risk of freezing.

An emergency vehicle swiftly arrived on site, but then things went against medical protocol.

One of the doctors first stepped over the uncurious person on the ground and then performed the preliminary examination of his condition with his foot.

The video caught him touching the man’s head with the top if his boot three times before his colleague helped him throw the patient on the stretcher.

When the video surfaced online, it caused outrage among the local medical authorities and led to the arrogant paramedic losing his job.

“Yes, this is our doctor in the footage. From now on, our former doctor,” Igor Nikishov, the head of the Blagoveshchensk first aid station said in an apology.

“The fact that this medic was never before spotted doing anything of a kind and that he saved more than a dozen lives over the last few years doesn’t justify his behavior. This incident shocked everybody our team," Nikishov added.

The online commentators shared the sentiment as they called the events in the video “horrible.”

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“Nobody would even treat his dog like this. He may be drunk, but he’s still a human being,” one of the users wrote, while the other exclaimed: “And this is what we get for cashing out on our medical insurance!”

But there were those who defended the paramedic saying that what he did “wasn’t that terrible” and pointing out that the patient was still taken off the street and didn’t freeze.

“The good you do is instantly forgotten, but make one mistake and you’ll be stoned,” one of the comments read.

Meanwhile, the patient, who sobered up after being delivered to the narcological department, refused medical treatment and went home.

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