LEONID Story: "There's nothing worse than loneliness"

Leonid spends most of the day lying on his bed. “Here it’s like you’re back in the USSR: the clock (in his room) is not working." Leonid says. Pictured in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), TB Institute, Minsk, Belarus, in August 2018

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LEONID Story: "There's nothing worse than loneliness"

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF249363

Date taken / Date Recorded 16/08/2018 12:00 AM

Country Belarus

Detailed location Minsk

Commissioning section MSF-NETHERLANDS

Photographer / videographer / producer Viviane Dalles

Copyright Viviane Dalles

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★ (F)

Maximum Size 3865px × 5797px 9.43 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist LEONID
“It’s very bad to live with TB. Nobody wants to come to you, nobody wants to visit you. You are here alone. You could die, no one will notice, nobody needs you.” Leonid

Leonid is 53 years old, from Minsk, in-patient in ICU of RSPC PT (TB Institute), XDR TB, infectious, used to be in the 3rd unit, but was transferred to the ICU because of suicidal thoughts, he is not allowed out of ICU. Before, he worked as a carpenter at the Belarussian TV and Radio company. He had been married and then divorced and has a daughter. He has no idea where they live nowadays. He hasn’t been in contact with his daughter for 15 years. He was diagnosed with TB in 2003 in the TB Institute (dispensary), was sent to Sosnovka sanatorium, and was discharged, but after 2 months he felt worse and sought medical assistance. He is awaiting transfer to Mogilev TB hospital which has a psychiatric unit.

Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis