The Mashalkin National Center for Medical Research will postpone some of the operations planned for 2027 due to a lack of quotas, the reason for the move to the National Center for Medical Research. Academician E.N. Mashalkin in Novosibirsk was explained by the fact that this year more emergency patients were admitted to the medical institution than the year before, Kommersant was told by I.O. Director General of the National Medical Research Center, Alexander Romanov. According to him, it has already exceeded the annual program for hospitalizations with mandatory medical insurance, one of several types of funding. Therefore, some patients will only be admitted in the first months of 2027. The National Center for Medical Research did not say exactly how many surgeries would be postponed. The center explained that each case is examined by a medical committee. If there are indications for emergency surgery, it will be performed this year. The institution asked the Russian Ministry of Health and the mandatory medical insurance fund to allocate additional aid amounts.