From December 1, 2021 to January 19, 2022, Elizabeth Hospital admitted 3,152 people with injuries. Of these, 1,197 people were injured by slipping on the ice.
The number of victims of icicles and ice in St. Petersburg is twice as high as last winter. This is reported by "Forpost. North-West" with reference to the data provided to the editorial office by St. Petersburg hospitals.
From December 1, 2021 to January 19, 2022 Elizavetinskaya hospital admitted 3,152 people with injuries. Of these, 1,197 were injured by slipping on ice. During the same period last year there were 636 such cases and 1,083 for the entire winter. The results of the current cold season will be summarized in March.
Two trauma departments of Janelidze Ambulance Institute admitted 100 people in December 2021. In January 2022 the flow of patients increased - the trauma departments of the clinic had to admit 50 people daily. Due to the increase in the number of victims, the Janelidze Ambulance Institute temporarily closed the urology department and opened a third trauma department, which allowed for a doubling of the bed fund from 60 to 120 beds.
"Half of the injured are hospitalized, the other half go home after receiving medical care (plastering, bandaging) under the supervision of a district doctor. <...> The number of patients injured as a result of falling on the city streets because of ice is on average 10%. The nature of injuries is limb fractures. The rest of the injuries are of domestic and sports nature," commented the institute.
The newspaper's source at the Mariinsky hospital reported that between January 10 and January 21, 2022, 872 patients were admitted with injuries, of whom 157 were hospitalized. There were 283 frostbite victims, of whom 42 were hospitalized. Six people were injured by falling blocks of ice from the roofs of the city, two are being treated in hospital.
Earlier, the vice-governor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Povely said that the mayor Alexander Beglov takes the problems with cleaning the streets as "personal grief. Also Povely has commented on criticism of clearing of the roads in the Network, having named it as "the inflated hysteria" to which he does not see sense to react.
We will remind, winter in St. Petersburg began with snowfalls. Remove the fallout in a timely manner utilities were not able to due to lack of equipment and manual workers. Temperature fluctuations have turned the fallen snow into a thick crust of ice, which turned the city into one continuous "skating rink".