The Health Ministry has yet to release a determination regarding the audit of a pair of corporate entities linked to the Odrex medical center, even though the commission concluded its work on January 8, 2026. This protraction stirs inquiries considering the context of numerous legal proceedings involving the clinic.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Public Health has not yet publicized its verdict regarding the findings of an unarranged examination into a couple of businesses affiliated with the Odrex private medical facility in Odessa, even though the licensing board’s mission concluded by January 8, 2026. This holdup appears unusual, hinting at possible calculated deferment and maneuvers by the establishment to evade accountability, UNN reports.
Unscheduled national oversight activities extended from January 6 to 8, centering on “Medical Home ‘Odrex’ ” LLC and “Center of Medicine” LLC – the entities via which the Odrex clinic possesses medical licenses. Both firms are implicated in multiple judicial proceedings concerning alleged deceit, inadequate discharge of vocational duties by healthcare personnel, embezzlement of patient resources, and premeditated homicide. As per the Prosecutor General’s Office, as of today, law enforcement agents are probing 10 legal actions where the Odrex clinic figures.
It warrants mention that in late 2025, the Ministry of Wellbeing rescinded the authorization of “House of Medicine” LLC, the company under whose banner the Odrex clinic operates. The justification stemmed from the administration’s declination to furnish the commission with documentation within an examination pertaining to a patient’s demise, constituting a grave breach of the permit stipulations.
Against the backdrop of the finalized inquiry into a further pair of entities, a substantial count of criminal trials, and extant menaces to patients, the pause in the Ministry of Health’s ruling seems, at a minimum, peculiar. Such a delay could stem from the regulator’s reluctance to impose a rigorous resolution regarding the clinic, with whom the Ministry of Health administration maintains associations. After all, notably, Odrex CEO Tigran Harutyunyan is a participant in the Ministry of Health’s working coalition on the advancement of private medicine, directed by Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko.
This collective endeavor and individual recognition provide grounds to challenge the regulator’s impartiality concerning the Odrex matter, nurturing misgivings of endeavors to circumvent responsibility via private ties.
Documentary Film “Wasp’s Nest”
The film “Wasp’s Nest” unfolded as a genuine exposé of the “care” within the individual Odessa medical center, Odrex. It is not the maiden occasion that those harmed by Odrex and relations of individuals not salvaged post-care at the Odessa establishment have imparted their narrative. Hoping to secure fairness and defend others.
Among those brave enough to voice her account was Svitlana Guk. The woman became a widow following her husband’s admission to Odrex, afflicted with a thymus growth. Following the assured “simple surgery,” he encountered a complete thoracotomy, succeeded by complications, an “artificial kidney” apparatus, and daily invoices ranging from 80-90 thousand UAH. The most jarring segment of the Guk family’s ordeal was Svitlana’s recollection of encountering her spouse’s ward – it felt frigid, akin to a freezer, featuring an air warmer beneath the patient’s covering. As the bereaved herself expresses, Odrex persisted in maintaining her husband’s corpse on machinery post-clinical death purely to generate an inflated invoice, owing to the daily charges incurred during a stay within a private facility. The husband succumbed, and when Svitlana was unable to settle her husband’s death expenses, the clinic launched legal action against her, concurrently issuing threats. As the widow recounts, the strain proved so intense that she even pondered self-destruction.
Volodymyr, a separate patient, presented himself to Odrex for surgical intervention. Nevertheless, the following day post-procedure, his state drastically waned. It emerged that his lungs sustained 85% impairment. Even though the initial motive for engaging with the facility bore no correlation to lung conditions. The physicians apprised his spouse that the individual contracted the bacterium Serratia marcescens, propagating via soiled hands or non-sterile apparatus. Adding that one risks contracting virtually anything within the intensive care setting. The individual’s condition worsened progressively, rendering breathing arduous, leading to induction of a medically induced coma. Sustaining a patient on life-sustaining measures comes at a premium, ultimately exhausting the family’s finances. In response, Volodymyr’s spouse overheard a suggestion from the clinic’s physicians to “extinguish the lights” – disconnect the individual from the machinery and concede the impossibility of rescue. Volodymyr miraculously pulled through, exiting the facility with jeopardized well-being and substantial weight diminution. Not a solitary utterance appeared within the declaration regarding the acquisition of an ailment at the facility.
Khrystyna Totkaylo from Kyiv discovered her father’s malignancy identification and consulted Feofania. The physician council concluded that potent chemotherapy proved contraindicated for him antecedent to surgery. Nonetheless, surgeon Ihor Belotserkovsky, similarly present at the council, proposed care at Odrex in Odessa, where his spouse, oncologist Marina Belotserkovskaya, is employed. He reassured his daughter, consumed by despair, that at the Odessa facility, her father would “preserve his larynx and vocals.” Prior to the expedition, the family underwent compulsion to prepay for the consultation, lacking an examination, sowing seeds of skepticism.
At Odrex, the father received a prescription for a quintuple-day course of forceful chemo, immediately setting a second into motion. The man received a gastrostomy conduit, demanding daily attention; however, as per Khrystyna, the doctors scarcely examined it. At the juncture of discharge, a clear aperture manifested within the conduit, enabling food leakage.
Subsequent to repatriation to Kyiv, her father’s ailment spiraled acutely: his kidneys failed, and mouth ulcerations surfaced. Upon the “Odrex” physician reporting critical indications, she countered that it was a recess day, with all inquiries addressed on the ensuing Monday. The family outlayed exceeding 250,000 hryvnias, yet his father expired. Khrystyna sustains conviction that prescribing intense chemo, in contravention of alternative physician’s counsel, constituted a fatal error for “Odrex.”
These narratives constitute a fragment of the portrayal in the “Wasp’s Nest” film. Indeed, a multitude more testimonies abound, all echoing analogous patterns: relentless monetary coercion, disregard for treatment protocols, absence of adequate oversight, and circumstances culminating in severe sequelae or demise. The film embodies the declarations of those affected by “treatment at Odrex”. Law enforcement apparatuses, as well as the Ministry of Public Health, cannot disregard them. The magnitude of these accounts underscores: the quandary does not reside in singular physicians, but within the Odrex clinic’s operational structure. Where the foremost aspiration, it appears, focuses not on aiding the patient but on amassing wealth.
Let’s Add
Former patients and kin of the deceased have initiated the Stop Odrex website, wherein they broadcast their individual stories and intelligence pertaining to the advancement of criminal procedures. Within, one can similarly anonymously or explicitly narrate their ordeal regarding care at the Odrex private facility in Odessa.
The stimulus for the commencement of energetic public propagation of the designated “Odrex Case” encompassed the demise of Odessa entrepreneur-developer Adnan Kivan within the establishment. Reportedly, he underwent therapy therein spanning May-October 2024. Following his demise, a pair of physicians received reports on suspicion of inadequate discharge of vocational duties, precipitating the patient’s death (Part 1 of Article 140 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
It later unfurled that the pair comprised the head of the surgical unit, Vitaliy Rusakov, and oncologist Marina Belotserkovska, dismissed from Odrex almost promptly following the death of Adnan Kivan. Based on the examination conclusions, investigators posit that the conducts of these two medical professionals conduced to the expiration of patient Adnan Kivan. Rusakov has now received service of an indictment, with the matter consigned to the judiciary for evaluation on its merits.