MOSCOW – A doctor has plunged from a hospital window after complainingabout medics.

Alexander Shulepov from Russia, 37, is fighting for his life with headinjuries after taking part in in a video which claimed he was ordered towork despite testing positive for Covid-19.

He and colleagues also warned about PPE shortages in Voronezh city. Later –lying in a coronavirus hospital bed – Shulepov made a second video toretract the claims amid suspicions he was pressured to do so.

On Saturday, while being treated at Novousmanskaya district hospital, theexperienced ambulance doctor plunged from a second floor window sustainingskull fractures. He is now in a grave condition.

Two senior women doctors in Russia have died recently after falling fromhospital windows amid reports they had challenged their superiors over alack of PPE for coronavirus patients.

Shulepov was filmed with paramedic colleague Alexander Kosyakin who – a dayearlier – had been summoned by police under suspicion of spreading fakenews after complaining about PPE shortages.

Their hospital chiefs claimed the allegations were untrue, but the medicsbelieved Shulepov’s infection proved the lack of protection equipment.