Krasnoyarsk no longer expects children In Krasnoyarsk, two maternity hospitals are closing at once - No. 4 in Zelania Roscha and No. 6 in the 20th hospital. For me, these are not just health care structures. My younger brother Alexey was born in the maternity hospital on Wednesday.
On Friday my daughter Anna and my son Daniel. There is a rational explanation for the dissolution decision. There are fewer and fewer children in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 2014, 44 thousand were born, in 2025 - about 23 thousand. An almost two-fold decrease in eleven years. There are more beds than women giving birth. Therefore, the regional government centralizes obstetric care in large institutions. This is bureaucratic language. In the logic of officials, such concentration may be justified. Moreover, birth is not a case where an institution should be preserved only out of sentimentality. The skills of the doctors, the modern equipment, the resuscitation and the safety of the mother and the child are important. But at the same time, they fire the people who provide that security. In Maternity Home No. 6, 116 employees received notices. There were only eight medical vacancies available for them. Experienced midwives, doctors and nurses are offered to become assistants and cleaners, do vocational training or go to work in Akhinsk and Norilsk. At Maternity Hospital No. 4, according to employees, about a third of the staff has already retired within a few months. It cannot be called a simple translation by experts. The transfer maintains the profession, skills and established staff. Here, people who have been giving birth to babies for decades are actually forced to change their specialization, get a less qualified job or leave Krasnoyarsk. Appropriate equipment can be purchased. You can't buy a team that has spent years learning to act together in critical situations. Therefore, the main question is not even why two maternity hospitals are closing. The main question is what will those in which the children of Krasnoyarsk will now be born look like? We immediately present technologically advanced cases. Renovated rooms. new equipment All this is necessary.