Sonya Kulivets, who lost her arm due to a medical error, got a chance to start a new life. Sonya Kulivets Sonya Kulivets

Sonechka Kulivets returned to Krasnodar after prosthetics in Germany, whose tragic fate more than three years ago shocked the whole country.

Two month old baby New Year was taken to the regional children's infectious diseases hospital with a diagnosis of whooping cough. Here, a catheter was unsuccessfully installed to administer the medicine to the girl, as a result of which a blood clot formed in the brachial artery, and the handle had to be amputated along the shoulder joint. The investigation, and then the court, established that the cause was unsuccessful catheterization and the lack of proper treatment. The charge was brought against a nurse and a doctor: the court sentenced them to 10 and 11 months in prison to be served in a colony-settlement. Later, another tragedy occurred: the surgeon, who was found guilty, committed suicide in the SIZO cell.

After that, father Viktor Kulivets had a hard time. Reproaches rained down on him that, allegedly, it was he who, by his perseverance, brought the doctor to suicide. “And here I am, if he himself decided to pass such a sentence on himself?” says the baby’s father. “What should I answer to my daughter, who constantly asks:“ Dad, where is my pen?

Sonechka will be four years old in November. She is a very cheerful and active child. The eyes sparkle, the smile is radiant, the dimples on the cheeks. The authorities of the Kuban, who assured at one time that they would take care of the fate of the girl, are now not very fond of his parents, so Victor had to look for prosthetic options. The charitable foundation helped, where Sonya Kulivets' documents were sent at the suggestion of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

The path to this was long and thorny, he explains. - Hundreds of people who were touched by Sonya's fate helped me. And we are immensely grateful to all of them.

They spent a whole month in Germany. The first prosthesis is non-functional, it is a preparation for a sensory, biometric prosthesis, which, Victor believes, will be made for his daughter in due time.

In Germany, such technologies have long been mastered, - he says. - A year later, we are invited to a new prosthetics. We hope that kind people help us raise money. And the state, I think, should not stand aside. After all, we are talking about high-tech assistance, which, unfortunately, cannot be provided in our country yet. We have already received an invoice: prosthetics will cost 29,000 euros.

The first prosthesis, although non-functional, is very comfortable. It is made of silicone, attached to the chest. The handle is movable at the shoulder joint and bends at the elbow. And artificial fingers bend and can be fixed on a bicycle.

I hope my daughter will soon learn to ride it, - says Victor. - My wife and I will do everything so that our Sonechka does not feel flawed.

Sonya lives in the village of Kholmskaya, Abinsk district, with her father, mother, grandmother and older sister, 12-year-old Vika, who teaches her to read. The girl does not go to kindergarten: her mother, grandmother and elder sister. Before the prosthetics, the baby's disability was very noticeable: she did not keep her balance well, she often fell, and now, the parents hope, everything will be all right.

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The return of Kulivtsov from Germany was impatiently awaited by Nikitka Grishkov from Apsheronsk, who had both legs amputated in the same hospital where Sonya was. This happened on January 30, 2008, soon, at the request of his mother, a criminal case was opened against district doctors who delayed sending a seriously ill boy to Krasnodar. The investigation lasted a long time, and then the case was closed.

Now Nikita is six and a half years old and he is going to go to school this year. For more than a year, his mother drove him in a wheelchair, and then he learned to walk on prostheses. The prosthesis was carried out in St. Petersburg, where Nina Grishkova and her son have already been four times. She dreams of prosthetics abroad, but where will she get the money for this?

In Germany, I collected information especially for Nina, - says Viktor Kulivets. - They learned how to make such prostheses that a person can run on them. After all, Nikitka dreamed of becoming a football player, he can drive the ball calmly on them and the ball. They told me so: contact philanthropists, look for funds - and come.

Doctor Vladimir Pelipenko, who mistakenly amputated the hand of a two-month-old child, was found dead in a cell in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Krasnodar. According to the official version, the anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the children's infectious diseases hospital, found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to the newborn Sofia Kulivets and sentenced to 11 months in a penal colony, committed suicide on the night of November 20. This was reported to Gazeta.Ru, refusing to comment on what happened.

At the moment, the investigative department is conducting an investigation into the death of Pelipenko. “The investigation will clarify the presence of a crime in this and will soon decide whether to initiate a criminal case,” Vladimir Chernobay, the doctor’s lawyer, told Gazeta.Ru.

According to him, the staff of the detention center found Pelipenko in serious condition, lying in a pool of blood, on Thursday night. While civilian doctors were on the way, prison doctors tried to provide first aid to the wounded. But their efforts were fruitless: the ambulance staff could only record the death of Pelipenko. According to Chernobay, the doctor was found to have "deep cuts of the vessels of the neck on the side and on the elbow joint." “He must have lost too much blood,” the lawyer added.

Chernobay himself does not believe that Pelipenko committed suicide. The accused was allegedly threatened.

The lawyer suggests that his client was the victim of unknown killers. According to Chernobay, ten days ago the doctor told his wife that in the event of any misfortune with him, the relatives should start a "full investigation." “What else can be assumed after such words?” Chernobay says. The autopsy, he said, "was done suspiciously quickly." According to the law, it was supposed to take place only tomorrow, but by Thursday evening it was already completely finished. True, the results of the procedure have not yet been reported.

Nevertheless, it is no longer possible to challenge them: Pelipenko's funeral should take place tomorrow.

“Why was such a laugh necessary,” Chernobay wonders.

Relatives and the lawyer also remain unclear why, despite the approved verdict, Pelipenko has not yet been transferred to the colony. For some reason, he was still in jail. On August 11, 2008, the defense filed a cassation appeal with the Krasnodar Regional Court against the conviction of the Prikubansky District Court with a request to drop all charges against Pelipenko. According to the lawyer, another convict in the case of Sonya Kulivets, a nurse assisting the doctor, Elena Senicheva, also filed a complaint there.

Initially, Pelipenko and Senicheva were sentenced to a year in prison. But on July 31, 2008, the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar reduced the sentence against both defendants in the case. At the same time, the nurse's defenders appealed by the fact that she has a 12-year-old child as a dependent, and she herself is in her fourth month of pregnancy. Senicheva's term was reduced to 10 months, and Pelipenko was given 11 months to serve his sentence in a colony-settlement. However, the judge could not explain to either the defendant's lawyers or his wife why the doctor continued to be in the isolation ward after the verdict was announced.

According to Chernobay, the judge argued that "the authorities do not want to execute the sentence." “But this is just some kind of nonsense,” the human rights activist is indignant.

Chernobay is afraid that the second defendant in this case "waits the same fate" as Pelipenko. For the pregnant Senicheva, the start of her sentence has been delayed for now, but the lawyer doubts that she will give birth in freedom. "Someone wants to tie up the ends of this case," Chernobay concluded.

It should be reminded that on December 30, 2006, doctors delivered a newborn Kulivets with a diagnosis of whooping cough from the Abinskaya district clinic to the regional children's infectious diseases hospital in Krasnodar. A catheter was placed to administer the medication to the child. But soon a blood clot formed in the baby's brachial artery. Doctors tried to save the injured hand, but to no avail. In early January 2007, she had to be amputated. The child was two months old. The examination established that the reason for the amputation of the arm was an incorrectly performed catheterization procedure by a nurse under the guidance of an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. The doctors were found guilty under part 2 of article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (infliction of grievous bodily harm by negligence, committed as a result of improper performance by a person of his professional duties).

I'm fine. I study - for fours and fives. I love drawing lessons, literature and English, - Sonechka Kulivets chirps into the phone. We called the girl to wish her a happy birthday - on November 2 she turned 9 years old!

When Sonya was two months old, doctors diagnosed her with whooping cough. But the anesthetist and nurse who brought the child to the girl incorrectly installed a catheter in her right arm to administer the medicine. As a result, a thrombus formed. Doctors tried to correct the situation, but to no avail. The baby's arm had to be amputated.

After the tragedy was widely publicized in the media, major medical officials then lost their positions. The anesthetist, accused of the death of the baby, completely opened his veins in the Krasnodar pre-trial detention center. And the girl's parents, having lost faith in doctors, began to look for clinics where they could make a prosthesis for their daughter. And this one was found in Germany. Here, for Sony, they have already made more than one artificial pen that looks like a real one. Prosthetics are financed by a Russian bank, which immediately after the emergency contacted the girl's parents and offered to help.

Kulivtsy, like nine years ago, live in the same house in the village of Kholmsky, Abinsk district. The old Zhiguli was replaced with a new Priora. The head of the family, Viktor, is also engaged in the repair of fuel equipment; his wife, Natalia, is a housewife. And their children - the eldest Vika and the youngest - Sonya, go to school. The first - in the 11th grade, the second - in the third.

In the morning I take my girls to school, and in the afternoon I go to fetch Sonya, - says Victor Kulivets. - Vika either meets with friends, or stays for additional lessons - after all, she has the Unified State Examination ahead, she is preparing for exams. And Sonya often asks not to pick her up, they say, she is already an adult, she will reach the house herself. The school is nearby. But I still run after her.

This summer, Victor traveled to Germany for the fifth time, where a prosthesis is being made for a girl in one of the best clinics in the world.

We change it every two years, here, the deadline has come again, - says Victor. - Now we have already made a teenage one. The price of the prosthesis reaches 34 thousand euros. If not for VTB Bank, which has been helping us for so many years, I don’t even know how we would have coped. Our family is very grateful to him! And by the way, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the leadership of this financial institution through your newspaper. And in the German clinic, we became friends with the translator Natalya, she has three sons. Sonya usually plays with the boys when we come to Germany. She is a very sociable child. And absolutely healthy.

Sonya did not ask for gifts on her ninth birthday.

He tells me, dad, you buy everything for me, - says Viktor Kulivets. - But my mother and I prepared a gift for our daughter. And she also wants to gather all her friends and invite almost the entire class to visit. Good thing it's school holidays. So we will set the table at home with sweets, pastries, lemonade and of course. But there will also be salads and various meat dishes - Sonechka is not picky about food, she eats everything.

I didn’t ask my parents for anything as a gift, because I have almost everything. Both the camera and the phone, - Victor passes the phone to his youngest daughter. - I still have a lot of pencils and paints. I love to draw. And I also love art lessons. I draw flowers, houses, and also postcards. I give my paintings to my mom and dad. And in my class I have 24 people, recently a new girl Sasha came to us. I made friends with her, I want to invite her to visit.

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Sony's dad:Who wants to know how we live? Come"

What has not been written about the Kulivets family in the network in recent years. Victor and Natalia were even "bred". Like, the couple no longer lives together, and Sonya is brought up by one mother.

All this is nonsense. Who wants to know how we live, you are welcome to visit. We are at home every evening, - Viktor Kulivets smiled.

Needle went through a vein Doctors' New Year's mistake made two-month-old Sophia disabled SERGEY PEROV, Krasnodar The prosecutor's office of the Kuban district of Krasnodar opened a criminal case on the fact of a medical error, which resulted in the amputation of a hand from an infant. The investigators will have to assess the actions of the doctors, who not only committed a flagrant oversight, as a result of which little Sophia lost her arm, but also tried to hide the results of their negligence for a long time. The girl's parents are now going crazy with grief. "NI" found out from experts what threatens doctors and how to help the child. Viktor and Natalya Kulivets, together with their two-month-old daughter Sofia, lived in the village of Kholmskaya, Abinsk district, Krasnodar Territory. Shortly before the New Year, Sofiyka, as she was called at home, began to cough and choke. The young couple hurried to the district pediatrician of the village. Looking at the child pediatrician immediately wrote a referral to the district hospital, making an unmistakable diagnosis - whooping cough. This disease is quite serious, accompanied not only by coughing, but also threatening convulsions and respiratory arrest. In the hospital of the Abinsk district, doctors put the child on a drip, prescribed treatment and called doctors from Krasnodar for a consultation. Those with the consent of the parents on the night of December 31 took the child to the Krasnodar Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital. Here Sophia was assigned to the intensive care unit, and the excited mother Natasha was settled in a nearby box, strictly forbidding her to enter the room where her daughter was. At six o'clock in the morning, the doctor discovered that the catheter on the child's left arm had stopped working, and instructed the nurse on duty to correct the situation. The woman decided to put a catheter on her right arm. A steel needle passed through a thin vein and pierced an artery in which a blood clot formed. At ten o'clock in the morning, a consultation was held at Sofiyka's bed, in which a surgeon from the Department of Vascular Surgery took part. The doctors decided to continue conservative treatment. The Kremlin chimes were chiming, champagne glasses were clinking, and in the intensive care unit, little Sofiyka was coughing and moaning quietly, her hand was very sore ... What happened next will be clarified by a specially created commission of the regional health department, carefully sorting through the sheets of documents and testimonies left from those tragic days doctors, will seek answers to questions. Why was the formed thrombus not removed? Which of the doctors looked after the child in new year holidays? Why was the child sent to pediatric surgery so late? The baby's parents only suspected something was wrong on January 2, when they saw that the girl's tiny fingers had turned black. On this day, the child was taken to the children's regional hospital. Surgeons struggled for several days to save the child's hand. Then we began to talk about the life of the child. On Christmas Eve, Sofia's arm was amputated up to the shoulder joint. Only this measure saved a life. A story in the local media about a monstrous medical error had the effect of an exploding bomb. Rumbled and at the top of the local authorities. The Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev, held a special meeting on this occasion. He promised that everyone responsible for the tragedy would be held personally accountable. He demanded that Eduard Aslanyan, chief physician of the regional children's infectious diseases hospital, and Konstantin Shapovalov, chief physician of hospital No. 3, be dismissed from their posts. For 30-year-old spouses, the New Year's tragedy was a terrible test. Victor himself works as a mechanic in a local motorcade, his wife works as a cook in a boarding school. The couple already have one child - Vika, a second grader. Victor turned to us with a request. He heard that somewhere, either in Germany or in Italy, there are new technologies that restore limbs. He needs information, is it really possible. “Suddenly, there, in Europe, you can at least slightly increase your daughter’s hand. I have some money, I will squeeze something out of the hospital, people promise to help. But I need all this to restore the child’s hand!” Father almost screams. But for now, the only hope is prosthetics. Experts say that the first prosthesis can be installed when the girl begins to walk, by about one and a half years. Taking the first steps, the child should feel the load on the left and right side so as not to earn a curvature of the spine. “The primary prosthesis will be cosmetic, Small child will not be able to cope with the mechanics yet,” Boris Spivak, head of the sector for studying the problems of technical means of rehabilitation of the Federal Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise, told NI. - Closer to five years, it will be necessary to install a more expensive prosthesis that bends at the hand and elbow. It costs about 20 thousand rubles.” According to doctors, all the functions of the right hand are compensated by the left. With one hand, the girl will be able to perform 75% of all actions. However, Viktor Kulivets does not want to hear about prosthetics. He hopes for help, for new technologies, for a miracle, finally. Only that Sophia had two mittens in her wardrobe, and not one, as it is now. January 22, 2007 Little martyr Baby, who lost her arm, was christened right in the ward SERGEY PEROV, Krasnodar Novye Izvestia continues to follow the fate of two-month-old Sophia Kulivets, who lost her right arm due to an oversight by doctors. Last weekend, the priests baptized the girl right in the ward. Now the heavens will protect the tiny child, who suffered inhuman torments at the very beginning of his life. The other day Sofiyka had her stitches removed, she feels normal, she sleeps without anesthesia. The rite of baptism was performed by the priest Father Oleg from the Alexander Nevsky Church, which is located nearby. Godparents have not yet been invited, they remained in the village of Kholmskaya. Yesterday Victor Kulyvets, having wrapped up his daughter, walked with her around the yard of the regional children's hospital. The girl does not sleep, she carefully looks around, very lively and curious. Doctors say that the child's condition is stable, there is a positive trend, whooping cough is also receding. So far, however, according to the father, it is too early to talk about discharge from the hospital. Tomorrow they are waiting for the arrival of specialists from Moscow, who should decide on the further treatment and rehabilitation of the girl. The telephone consultation of doctors from the Moscow Research Institute of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery and doctors from the regional children's hospital regarding the treatment of the girl, which was supposed to take place on Friday, was canceled. So far, none of the doctors who made a mistake came to the Kulivets spouses and asked for forgiveness. They, apparently, are waiting for the result of the examination. The investigation of the criminal case under Article 118 of the Criminal Code of Russia "infliction of grievous bodily harm through negligence" goes on as usual. The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory has already begun to acquaint parents with its results. Viktor Kulivets thanks the readers of NI for their support and help, which is so important in difficult times. Still, he hopes that the issue of saving the hand can be solved with the help of new technologies or a donor organ. He asks to know, especially our foreign readers, what are the possibilities to restore a child's pen, at least partially, at least with the help of experimental technologies. Anyone who wants to help Sophia and her parents can transfer funds to the current account: BIK 046015602 Crimean OSB 1850 South-Western Bank of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Rostov-on-Don OSB 1850/054 st. Kholmskaya K/S 30101810600000000602 R/S 30301810052000603028 TIN 7707083893 Account 42307810530280616394 For: Kulivets Viktor Ivanovich
Natalia © (24.01.2007 11:01)

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On the fact of the death in the Krasnodar pre-trial detention center of a doctor convicted in the "case of Sonya Kulivets", no criminal case will be initiated.

Investigation Department for Krasnodar Krasnodar Territory refused to open a criminal case on the death of convicted doctor Vladimir Pelipenko.

"Today, a decision was made to refuse to initiate a criminal case due to the absence of a crime event. At the same time, it was denied both to initiate a case under Article 105 (murder) and under Article 110 (incitement to suicide)," the head of the investigative department for Krasnodar of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation told reporters Alexander Valiev.

Recall that in September, an anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the Krasnodar Children's Infectious Diseases Hospital was sentenced to 11 months in a colony-settlement. A week ago, on November 20, Pelipenko was found on his bed in a pre-trial detention center "with bodily injuries in the form of cut wounds in the neck and elbow."

The investigator noted that although Pelipenko did not talk about suicide, he was treated for depression for several months, and his cellmates in the pre-trial detention center said that the doctor was worried about the tragedy with Sonya Kulivets and understood that he would not be able to return to medicine.

Valiev clarified that Pelipenko was taken into custody on November 5 and placed in a cell +154 pre-trial detention center +1 in Krasnodar, where he was accompanied by those convicted of crimes of medium gravity - for theft, fraud, drug trafficking. All of them, including Pelipenko, were sentenced to serve their sentences in a colony-settlement.

"Pelipenko behaved a little inadequately, but he did not express intentions to commit suicide. No threats or force, according to cellmates, were used against him," Valiyev said.

On November 7, Pelipenko, who fell ill with pneumonia, was transferred to the hospital ward of the SIZO. In the cell of the hospital, he was with five convicts. "These persons were convicted under articles classified as crimes of medium gravity. Among them, there were no notorious criminals capable of depriving lives," Valiyev said.

According to him, according to the testimony of Pelipenko's cellmates, the doctor was very worried because the girl Sonya Kulivets lost her arm. He said that he would never be able to work as a doctor again, and this was his life's work.

On the night of November 20, around 24:00, he ran to the window and began to call his relatives, Valiev said. At the same time, cellmates say that Pelipenko's behavior at that moment was already inadequate. At about 01:00, one of the prisoners heard Pelipenko's wheezing, approached him and saw that he was lying in blood. A guard was called, then a paramedic of the pre-trial detention center.

"The paramedic says that she tried to sew up Pelipenko's wounds, but he waved his arms and prevented her from doing it. When the ambulance arrived, the doctors pronounced him dead," Valiyev said.

During the inspection of the scene, a blade from a disposable razor was found. A forensic medical examination found ten incised wounds on the body of Pelipenko in the neck on the left - all these wounds are superficial. Another wound was in the area of ​​the elbow, in the region of the vein. There are also scratches on the fingers, indicating that he held the blade with his right hand.

Valiev also said that the audit materials contain information that Pelipenko was in a psychiatric hospital in Krasnodar from February 12, 2008 to July 18, 2008, that is, just at the time when the trial in the Kulivets case was taking place. In the hospital, he was treated for depression.

Regarding the fact that Pelipenko was finally sentenced on September 17, and he was placed in custody only on November 9, the head of the department said the following: “There is a certain procedure for carrying out the sentence. Pelipenko was under house arrest during the trial, therefore, after the the sentence had to be ordered to place him in custody, and this took time."

Recall that in addition to Pelipenko, Elena Senicheva, a nurse from the same hospital, was convicted in the case of the baby girl Sonya Kulivets, whose arm was amputated as a result of a medical error.

Both of them were charged under part 2 of article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "causing grievous bodily harm by negligence, committed as a result of improper performance by a person of his professional duties."

On November 19, 2007, the doctors were each sentenced to a year in prison in a colony-settlement. However, after an appeal, the court reduced the terms of imprisonment for each of the doctors by one month.

Two-month-old Sonya Kulivets lost her arm as a result of an incorrectly inserted catheter: the girl developed thrombosis of the artery of her right forearm, which led to amputation.

An expert commission from Moscow came to the conclusion that the child became disabled due to a mistake by doctors.