Viciebsk. We go to Marco City sits a young man with a crutch. Even a cursory look at his people (though not familiar with medicine) understands walk the streets without the support of a man cannot. After receiving terrible injuries the man received MEDC and the third group of disability pension of 130 rubles from the Belarusian state.

Not enough money and food, not to mention the clothes and footwear (shoes and choose difficult because bad leg swells continuously). Here in the warm days and is sitting at the Summer Amphitheatre Alexander Shinkevich guy 34 years. And next to hurry about their business passersby. Not every minute there is sympathy and a few pennies for the patient.

– How do I become disabled? This happened three years ago, when I was with my wife and daughter lived in St. Petersburg, – says Alexander, – on March 8 was with a friend at the bus stop, I slipped on the "curbs" (as St. Petersburg group called the border) and fell directly under the rear wheels drove up trolley. A female driver pulled up in the end on my left foot to drive a heavy wheel.

With four open fractures Sasha was taken to the clinic of military surgery, where they spent several operations to restore the legs and skin grafts. However, the young man back to its former mobility and could not. Sasha apartment still walk without crutches, but the street is not. In addition, in the injured leg severely disrupted circulation, because of what developed elephantiasis, in which the limb swells.

– I go to trauma, but only to the direction of the MEDC get another ticket but once a year in rehabilitation sanatorium in Jurcava, – says Alexander. – For the effective treatment I did not offer. I am confident that his leg is still possible to try to heal, but outside of Belarus. But the operation in good clinic I have no money. I live on 130 rubles. Well, at least not one with the girl. I was born in Vorša, lived many years in St. Petersburg, there remained my family, my wife divorced me. Tickets from St Petersburg to Vorša bought my former mother-in-law. A March live in Viciebsk at the girl, whom he met after the injury.

I would love to come to work, though the guard, the third group of disability allows it. But who will take me? So I go out sometimes ask for money on the street. In winter, live recluse in the apartment, I eat mostly pasta but peas. I'm tired, do not want to live, but it is necessary! How much meted out to me will live, even thought there were to get their hands.

Sasha sighs and begins to go home. It was possible to get from passers-by a small amount (a maximum that can collect on the day of disabled persons in Viciebsk, in recognition of Man, it's somewhere 20 rubles), and you can buy food.

Yevgenya Moskvina, vkurier.by
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