{"id":140246,"date":"2025-05-28T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/140246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"health-ministry-investigating-teenagers-death-in-homiel-regions-hospital","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/140246\/","title":{"rendered":"Health ministry investigating teenager\u2019s death in Homiel region\u2019s hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 28, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The Belarusian health ministry has launched an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl on May 17 at the hospital in the Homiel region&#8217;s Jelsk, a district center with a population of just above 8,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry set up a commission of experts who will examine evidence and social media reactions, the ministry reported, citing its official Leanid Niadzie\u0144. The incident will be discussed by the ministry&#8217;s board, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The teenager was taken to hospital when she arrived at the Jelsk outpatient clinic after staying at home for four days with cough and sore throat. Her condition worsened, and soon she was in a coma at an intensive care unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 17, doctors were waiting for a medical team from Mazyr for four hours. The critical care ambulance arrived at 6 p.m., yet did not take the patient to a more advanced clinic, as doctors were waiting for a team from Homiel that came around midnight. Twenty minutes after its arrival the teenager was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, Pozirk. The Belarusian health ministry has launched an investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl on May 17 at the hospital in the Homiel region&#8217;s Jelsk, a district center with a population of just above 8,000. The ministry set up a commission of experts who will examine evidence and social media reactions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":140062,"template":"","rubric":[15],"class_list":["post-140246","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Health ministry investigating teenager\u2019s death in Homiel region\u2019s hospital | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 28, Pozirk. 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