[SHOCKING] Doctor Beats Up a Patient Lying in ICU
An experienced doctor was caught on camera twice viciously beating a heart patient as he lay tied to an intensive care bed. The defenceless patient died soon afterwards.
By Sadho Ram — 13 Jul 2013, 06:14 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
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Andrey Votyakov was caught on camera punching the defenceless man across the face and in the chest as he recovered from heart surgery in intensive care
mirror.co.ukThe 61-year-old male victim, who was attacked in February at a heart surgery centre in the Urals city of Perm, died a week after the incident.
The video shows an anaesthetist identified as Andrei Votyakov talking animatedly to the patient, who wears an oxygen mask and has his arms and legs fastened to the bed. Mr Votyakov then punches the patient in the face before bringing his fist down heavily on the victim's chest.
Police are now probing the Russian doctor - who previous had an unblemished record - for his cruel assault on the middle-aged man soon after he underwent surgery at a hospital in Perm, in the Urals.
dailymail.co.ukThe incident was in February this year but the footage was only recently made public. The patient was a man aged ‘over 45’ from Kirov region. There has been no comment so far from the patient's family.
dailymail.co.ukAndrey Votyakov, the doctor who beat the patient, says he got carried away
‘It was a hard day after a 24 hour shift,’ claimed Votyakov, chief of the prestigious hospital's anaesthesiology and intensive care department, after the footage went viral on the Russian web.
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'Hard day': The medic, Andrey Votyakov, blamed his frenzied attack on exhaustion after a 24-hour shift
Image via dailymail.co.uk“As soon as I came into the room with my team he started to call me various derogative names. And I just got blown away by it,” Votyakov said in his defense.
‘We had spent so much time with his very complicated case to help him recover and he said not a single word of gratitude. ‘And then the chronic tiredness added to it. I got carried away, and I punched him several times at the presence of my colleagues.'
We continued the treatment after the incident, but sadly the patient died. 'I am very sorry for what happened and I want to apologise first of all to the patient himself and his family.’