Pediatric surgeon Irina Romadova listed the pros and cons of the State Duma’s initiative to create an Internet service to search for “hospitalized”. She voiced her position in an exclusive commentary to we.
A few days earlier, information appeared that State Duma deputy Vasily Vlasov proposed creating an online resource for finding hospitalized people. According to RT, a copy of the letter describing the project has already been sent to the head of the Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko.
According to Irina Romadova, the idea of a service can help save people from a difficult situation. For example, elderly people often do not have a telephone with them, and if misfortune happens to them, then relatives have to call absolutely all hospitals in the city in search of a missing person.
“Such a base is very necessary and important. When a person goes missing, it takes a long time to find out where he is, to call all the hospitals. If a person is in some kind of life-threatening situation, and we waste time looking for him, this can lead to sad consequences, ” — said the doctor.
and provide the necessary assistance.