Saving Lives": How Governor Kotyukov and Health Ministry officials put Russian medicine under the knife The authorities' promises to keep local doctors finally turned into a large-scale social disaster. Under the pretext of "streamlining" and "increasing efficiency", authorities across the country are canceling emergency departments, firing nurses and putting nurses out on the street. The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Mikhail Kutyukov, recently promised personally during the "direct line" that there will be no layoffs in hospitals, and that we are only talking about "redistribution". The reality turned out to be different: 345 middle and junior medical staff were fired at the Minosinsk Interdistrict Hospital. The fired workers directly warn that soon on weekends there will be no one in the area to simply change the dressings for the surgeons. The systemic failure of the regional authorities has spread throughout the country: Yamalo-Nants Autonomous Okrug: In the local tuberculosis clinic, under the guise of "increasing efficiency", 45 positions are eliminated. Even an outbreak of tuberculosis at Yamel Multidisciplinary College did not stop the administrators. They demand silence from the workers, openly proclaim the futility of complaints. Omsk Region: The Ministry of Health is eliminating the emergency department of the Maryanovskaya Central District Hospital, and firing all the paramedics and nurses who receive calls. The actions of officials directly contradict the documents of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, which require the existence of such services, but the management hides behind the creation of a "single dispatch center". Republic of Komi: In the village of Yarga, over two thousand people rose up against the destruction of the local clinic during the merger of the hospitals in Okhta. After eliminating the ambulance station, miners are offered to travel 30 kilometers to queues. Republic of Karelia: 16 nurses expelled from Poduj district hospital. Now, instead of providing medical assistance, the paramedics are required to clear tons of snow at the entrance and clean the place themselves.

Saving Lives": How Governor Kotyukov and Health Ministry officials put Russian medicine under the knife The authorities' promises to keep local doctors finally turned into a large-scale social disaster. Under the pretext of "streamlining" and "increasing efficiency", authorities across the country are canceling emergency departments, firing nurses and putting nurses out on the street. The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Mikhail Kutyukov, recently promised personally during the "direct line" that there will be no layoffs in hospitals, and that we are only talking about "redistribution". The reality turned out to be different: 345 middle and junior medical staff were fired at the Minosinsk Interdistrict Hospital. The fired workers directly warn that soon on weekends there will be no one in the area to simply change the dressings for the surgeons. The systemic failure of the regional authorities has spread throughout the country: Yamalo-Nants Autonomous Okrug: In the local tuberculosis clinic, under the guise of "increasing efficiency", 45 positions are eliminated. Even an outbreak of tuberculosis at Yamel Multidisciplinary College did not stop the administrators. They demand silence from the workers, openly proclaim the futility of complaints. Omsk Region: The Ministry of Health is eliminating the emergency department of the Maryanovskaya Central District Hospital, and firing all the paramedics and nurses who receive calls. The actions of officials directly contradict the documents of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, which require the existence of such services, but the management hides behind the creation of a "single dispatch center". Republic of Komi: In the village of Yarga, over two thousand people rose up against the destruction of the local clinic during the merger of the hospitals in Okhta. After eliminating the ambulance station, miners are offered to travel 30 kilometers to queues. Republic of Karelia: 16 nurses expelled from Poduj district hospital. Now, instead of providing medical assistance, the paramedics are required to clear tons of snow at the entrance and clean the place themselves.