An experienced doctor was caught on camera twice viciously beating a heart patient as he lay tied to an intensive care bed.<\/p>\n
The defenceless patient died soon afterwards and the medic, Andrey Votyakov, blamed his frenzied attack on exhaustion after a busy 24-hour shift.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The shocking 30-second video clearly shows a verbal argument between a doctor and the tethered patient at the Federal Cardo-Surgery Centre in the industrial city.<\/p>\n
Then the doctor hits out, striking the patient first on the head and soon afterwards in the area of his heart.<\/p>\n
He was evidently unaware that his brutal attack – which has now cost him his job – was being filmed on a camera focused on the patient’s bed.<\/p>\n
\u2018It was a hard day after a 24 hour shift,\u2019 claimed Votyakov, chief of the prestigious hospital’s anaesthesiology and intensive care department, after the footage went viral on the Russian web.<\/p>\n
\u2018As soon as I came into the room with my team he started to call me various derogative names.\u00a0 And I just got blown away by it.
\n\u2018We had spent so much time with his very complicated case to help him recover and he said not a single word of gratitude.<\/p>\n
\u2018And then the chronic tiredness added to it. I got carried away, and I punched him several times at the presence of my colleagues.’<\/p>\n
The camera does not show any other doctors or nurses seeking to intervene.<\/p>\n
‘We continued the treatment after the incident, but sadly the patient died.<\/p>\n
‘I am very sorry for what happened and I want to apologise first of all to the patient himself and his family.\u2019<\/p>\n
The incident was in February this year but the footage was only recently made public.<\/p>\n
The patient was a man aged \u2018over 45\u2019 from Kirov region. There has been no comment so far from the patient’s family.<\/p>\n
Votyakov’s boss, Sergey Sukhanov, announced today that he was firing the violent medic.<\/p>\n
There were predictions that the doctor would face jail and ruin over his attack, though it is so far unclear what charges he may face.<\/p>\n
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