In the Samara region, they proposed to compare refusal to treat tuberculosis to an attempted murder. Duma deputies of Siran District approached the Samara District Duma with a proposal to increase the punishment for evading treatment for an infectious type of tuberculosis and creating a threat of infection on purpose to others. The publication "Bikurat" reports this. The chairman of the social policy committee of the Syrian Duma, Yekaterina Armolaeva, suggested comparing such behavior to attempted murder. The reason for the initiative was the increase in the number of cases of open tuberculosis. According to the deputies, since January 2026, the regional clinic has submitted nine lawsuits to the court for forced hospitalization of citizens. Thus, in Altai territory, a patient was escorted to a medical facility; A similar incident occurred in Chelyabinsk. At the same time, the overall statistics of the region are improving every year, but remain higher than in the entire Volga region. Naylia Sharipova, the deputy chief physician for medical work at the anti-tuberculosis clinic in Syzran, stated that the situation with avoiding treatment is not critical. "We have an established mechanism for working with such patients, but we aim to speed up the treatment referral procedure. If you avoid treatment for two months or more, we submit a statement to the prosecutor's office, which takes the case to court. The court decides on mandatory treatment, and then the court has an obligation to see to it that the patient stays in a hospital for six months in a hospital, if we keep the patient in a hospital. A court, and they return it," Sharipova noted. According to her, the main difficulty is finding conscription evaders, since many do not live at their registered address and lead a marginal lifestyle. The representatives propose not only to forcibly hospitalize such patients, but to send them to closed medical institutions for mandatory treatment.