A Telegram news channel covering the city of Ufa, in the republic of Bashkortostan in Russia’s Volga region, has posted footage shot by one of its readers showing video cameras in a gynaecologist’s examination room at one of the city’s hospitals.
The disconcerted reader explained that she had initially been asked to sign several documents which included a form consenting to be filmed while in hospital, though a hospital staffer had told her that the only cameras in the facility were in the hospital corridors.
However, the patient, who asked to remain anonymous, subsequently realised that cameras had also been placed in the offices of several doctors, and shot footage of a camera placed directly in front of an OB/GYN table in a private examination room.
The hospital’s chief physician Radik Nadyrgulov rejected the “inaccurate” claims and insisted that the cameras had been installed “according to government regulations” and with the aim of preventing terror attacks.
Nadyrgulov added that the angle of the camera was such that filming a patient during an examination would not be possible and that access to any recorded footage was strictly limited and could only be handed over to law enforcement agencies and courts.
