Ambulance doctor: We were forbidden to give interviews

Ambulance doctors who worked on the site of explosion on the night of July 4 did not know where they were going at first. When the situation started becoming clear, doctors were forbidden to give interviews. One of the ambulancemen informed the press centre of “Charter-97” about it. “We arrived on the spot at about 1 a.m. We were simply informed about some accident. There were about 20 ambulance crews from different hospitals working there at that moment.

Everything was going on very quickly. Many people were shouting. They said that “something had exploded”, “some screw-nuts” but we did not ask them about it and did not think much about it either… We did not have enough time for it. Nobody was in the way and nobody made us hurry. We saw that there were a lot of injured people who had to be saved. The crews that had arrived earlier were already helping the badly injured. We rendered medical assistance to a woman and to a guy who was shocked. Both of them had missile wounds in their legs but they were safe. The guy was taken to “the sixth” (hospital #6). There were about 10 ambulances that had arrived from the spot of explosion. Doctors did not think that it was something extraordinary – they were simply doing their job. We were forbidden to give any interviews afterwards”, - said the ambulance doctor to the press centre of “Charter-97”.