Shipowners in terms of the pandemic required to standardize sanitary regulations for crews. The quarantine was locked on Board the ships tens of thousands of sailors around the world. Many of them went in flight before the spread of the disease. And now, in fact, have become hostages in their own courts. The team is not the first month can not go ashore, some of the sailors needed medical emergency. Among victims there are Russians who are now trying to help our diplomats.
the Pandemic was locked in a sea of thousands of Russian and not only Russian sailors. The borders are closed, air traffic is paralyzed, the crews not to go ashore, not replaced and do not receive adequate medical care
Seafarer seagoing Alexey Kulibaba — 45 years. Off the coast of Indonesia, he suffered a stroke, further all as in a bad dream: the patient refused hospitalization, citing quarantine measures in the country. The requirement to leave port, the captain ignored. Dmitry Baklanov himself did sailor injections and IVS until I come rescue boat.
“It was a very complex question, but human life was in danger, and he brought together many people. We worked through the foreign Ministry, through international organizations, through the International Maritime organization and the Maritime authorities,” – said Deputy Minister of transport of the Russian Federation Yury Tsvetkov.
Alexei is Now in an Indonesian hospital recovering after surgery.
At the Shanghai hospital is another sailor with a abscess that had formed due to the simple flux.
“I felt a very strong toothache, I have inflamed gums, fever, physical condition deteriorated,” says a crew member ST BBC. PETERSBURG Denis.
because of quarantine measures Denis was able to put her in hospital only a few days. During this time the tumor had grown so large that the operation became impossible. Now he will put on the drip and wait until the swelling goes down.
“Tonly in the last 3 weeks we have about a dozen cases, when the ill, injured sailors, and if you get help, you get with great difficulty”, — says the Russian trade Union of seamen Yury Sukhorukov.
the world’s Only Service radiomedicine consultations for seafarers in the Russian language is located at the clinic of St. Petersburg state University. In pandemic, the shaft of calls. But no one sick with coronavirus, the main cause of complaints — psychosomatics.
“When people do not know what will happen next, can not do as he wants, all his plans of life radically changed, he starts to get nervous, worry. Exacerbated chronic diseases”, — says doctor of Sciences, Professor Konstantin Lagunov.
One crew went to sea in December for three months, in the end the flight was delayed for nearly six months, and upon arrival at the port of Murmansk regional Rospotrebnadzor issued an order to quarantine 14 days on Board of the ship. Sailors look forward to the house.
In the port of Vanino, the situation is reversed: there were not allowed aboard crew change, despite the presence of certificates on negative tests. Rospotrebnadzor insists on a two-week quarantine before departure. In fact, sailors equate to the shift workers.
“the Failure to timely laboratory testing creates a real risk of introduction of infection into the ship and causes the inability in further provision of skilled medical care in the period when the ship is at sea,” explains the chief of Department of epidemiological supervision of management of Rospotrebnadzora across Khabarovsk territory Tatyana Karavanska.
due to the loss of time damage to many sectors dependent on marine transportation. In particular, the court Sovcomflot serve major oil and gas projects.
“the Regional authorities allocate deptropine, which often do not coincide with the requirements prescribed by the Central government and ROSthe FDA. Actions such as in Vanino, cause unscheduled delays in the shifts of the crews,” — says CEO of SKF “Arctic” Yury Malyshev.
Boaters are encouraged to harmonize sanitary regulations throughout the country and not only to create a system of green corridors, the sailors had the opportunity to change. While in Russia, the pandemic has brought positive results to only one of the Murmansk port, here is a quarter compared to last year increased turnover. Fishers, who usually carried the fish in Norway, due to closed borders unload their catch in Russia.
