A Woman From Minsk With Quincke's Edema Waited Seven Hours For A Surgeon At The Hospital
- 21.09.2026, 15:15
She accuses the doctors of making a mistake.
A woman from Minsk svobodnay18 reported that she was denied a surgeon while she was in critical condition.
“At Minsk City Clinical Hospital No. 10, I was left in a life-threatening condition for 7.5 hours following a medical error,” she writes. “I’m in Minsk’s 10th Hospital (microsurgery department). They administered the antibiotic ‘Leflox’ as an IV bolus over four minutes instead of an hour on the first evening it was prescribed, and the same on the last evening.”
I developed a severe case of Quincke’s edema: my larynx swelled up, I couldn’t swallow, and my abdomen was so distended from intestinal paresis that I couldn’t see my legs. The on-duty staff in the ward refused to call an intensivist and a surgeon for 7.5 hours, claiming that a doctor would arrive soon.
The doctor didn’t arrive until late in the evening, when my intestines miraculously started working on their own. I simply don’t have the strength to fight this right now; I’m exhausted. I ask the Ministry of Health to take note of this nightmare and of how on-call teams abandon patients who are suffocating.”
Minsk residents reacted to the post and shared their own experiences of problems they faced while in the hospital. The website Charter97.org cites some comments:
- My mom was hospitalized at Hospital No. 10 during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was very ill; she called for help, but no one often came to her. But there was a quarantine in effect, and no one was allowed in. She died at 4 a.m., but they didn’t discover her until 7 a.m. We checked her call history—she had been calling the duty station nonstop, and no one answered the phone until she died.
- God forbid you end up at Hospital No. 10—they’ve never provided proper care. There aren’t any qualified doctors there at all, and if the nurses don’t call the ICU for a patient with edema, sue those employees if you’re still alive, they should be subjected to a presidential inspection, half of them fired, and the rest sent to retraining if they’ve forgotten where they work. Be sure to file a complaint—don’t let this slide—and demand punishment, or better yet, take them to court.
At the same time, some users expressed doubt that the woman actually had Quincke’s edema. According to them, the consequences of such a diagnosis are much more severe than those described by the patient.
Quincke’s edema (angioedema) is an acute condition in which the deep layers of the skin, subcutaneous tissue, or mucous membranes suddenly swell. This dangerous condition requires urgent medical attention, as it can lead to suffocation and anaphylactic shock.