Russian forensics expert suffering from coronavirus falls to her death from a window: Fatality follows three similar window falls by Russian doctors linked to Covid-19
- Lt Col Natalya Shcherbakova fell to her death from 5th floor hospital window
- Follows two senior female Russian doctors who also sustained fatal injuries
- It is unclear how the police colonel fell from the window in Moscow hospital
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A top Russian police forensic expert suffering from coronavirus fell to her death from a fifth floor hospital window in Moscow.
Lt Col Natalya Shcherbakova, 45, was put on a life support machine but later died, say police sources.
Her death from 'multiple traumas' follows two senior female Russian doctors sustaining fatal injuries after falling from hospital windows.
Moscow State Clinical Hospital Number 24, where a top Russian police forensic expert suffering from coronavirus fell to her death from the fifth floor window
Lt Col Natalya Shcherbakova, 45, was put on a life support machine but later died, say police sources. Above, Moscow State Clinical Hospital Number 24
Dr Natalya Lebedeva, 48, (left) plunged 60ft to her death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital after colleagues said she was unfairly blamed for the spread of coronavirus at her clinic in Star City, near Moscow, the training centre for cosmonauts. Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, (right) a mother of two from a medical family, sustained fatal injuries after falling 60ft from a window at her Krasnoyarsk hospital
A male medic suffered serious wounds in a similar fall - and a doctor colleague has denied he jumped voluntarily.
All three doctors had warned about PPE shortages.
The reasons for the police colonel's weekend fall from a fifth floor corridor window in Hospital Number 24 remain unexplained.
One of Russia's top forensic experts, she had been treated in a ward along with two other female coronavirus patients after a Covid-19 diagnosis on May 23.
News outlet RBC reported the circumstances of her fall were being established.
Earlier three doctors who had all warned about PPE shortages fell from hospital windows in separate locations in Russia.
The reasons for the police colonel's weekend fall from a fifth floor corridor window in Hospital Number 24, above and below, remain unexplained
One of Russia's top forensic experts, she had been treated in a ward along with two other female coronavirus patients after a Covid-19 diagnosis on May 23
Dr Natalya Lebedeva, 48, plunged 60ft to her death from the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital after colleagues said she was unfairly blamed for the spread of coronavirus at her clinic in Star City, near Moscow, the training centre for cosmonauts.
She had become infected from Covid-19.
Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, a mother of two from a medical family, sustained fatal injuries after falling 60ft from a window at her Krasnoyarsk hospital.
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Colleagues said she had complained about an 'acute shortage' of personal protection equipment for doctors and nurses.
Dr Alexander Shulepov, 37, remains in hospital with head injuries after plunging from a second floor window sustaining skull fractures.
He had taken part in in a video which claimed he was ordered to work despite testing positive for Covid-19.
Voronezh ambulance doctor Alexander Shulepov, 37, remains in hospital with head injuries after plunging from a second floor window sustaining skull fractures
Maria Shulepova, the wife of Voronezh ambulance doctor Alexander Shulepov and a mother of three
He and colleagues also warned about PPE shortages in Voronezh city.
Later - lying in a coronavirus hospital bed - Shulepov made a second video to retract the claims amid suspicions he was pressured to do so.
Sources say his family has been banned from speaking to the media.
But now a colleague has voiced the opinion that he would not have jumped of his own volition.
Dr Maksim Boyev posted: 'I know this man personally.
'He is kind-hearted, understanding and positive.
'Something is wrong here, 100 per cent.
'I believe that law enforcement agencies must thoroughly study everything.
'My opinion is that Alexander would never have done this from his own will.
'He has a wonderful family.'
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