In Pskov, sick conscripts are driven into the army, promising to cure them in the service

In Pskov, sick conscripts are sent to the army, promising to cure them during their service. This is reported by the Pskov Soldiers' Mothers Council. In conscription commissions, future soldiers are told that they will be put into hospital in the army and will be treated.

For three days, activists of the organization monitored the work of draft commissions, providing advice to draftees. Together with the public men, four young men came to the medical commission who were decided to be drafted into the army, despite serious diseases: epilepsy, osteoporosis, osteochondrosis of a large number of intervertebral discs and others. They also recognized a young man who had recently fallen from a height of a four-story building, receiving a severe head injury and neurological diseases.

The doctor in charge of the medical examination of conscripts told representatives of the soldier’s mother’s council that the list of diseases giving the right to postponement was no longer valid and that they do not accept X-ray descriptions made by “some” radiologists and are pictures on the description of "your radiologist."

In relation to the youths who arrived with social activists, we managed to postpone the appeal for the time being. The activists of the organization recorded a case when a young man who had undergone a complicated operation on his leg was called to the commission - he came to the commission with a stick. They wanted to recognize the young man as fit for service, promising that he would be doped in a military unit.

In addition, the commission decided to call several young people who did not take tests, ECG, x-rays.

According to the “soldier’s mothers”, they almost went to the service in the Armed Forces of a student at the Pskov Theological College, who suffers from several chronic diseases that give them the right to be exempted from conscription. The guy became ill after the statement of the senior doctor of the medical commission that he was fit for military service. He turned very pale, his hands began to shake, but the doctors said that he was a simulator, although it was noted in the medical card of a young man that he had seizures from childhood and he lost consciousness. The young man was urgently hospitalized from the military enlistment office to the hospital.

Social activists also note that the Pskov draft board is not staffed with all the necessary specialists: instead of a neuropathologist, a narcologist works in the commission.

The plan for conscription in Pskov and the Pskov region as of December 10 was fulfilled by 60%.