Two maternity hospitals will be closed in Krasnoyarsk at once – doctors' appeal to Putin has failed to help.
Maternity Hospitals No. 4 and No. 6 are facing closure, the Ministry of Health explained. Krasnoyarsk the edgesThe reason is the declining birth rate. However, it is claimed that there will be no shortage of places.
Last week, the staff of Maternity Hospital No. 4 asked Vladimir Putin not to close the medical facility. Thirty percent of the staff have already resigned and have been advised to look for other jobs or undergo retraining.
“Our maternity hospital is the only one in the city that has no accounts payable, and we are self-sufficient.” — the appeal said.
A similar appeal was recorded by the medical staff at the maternity hospital at City Hospital No. 20. While no official announcement has been made regarding its closure, the staff themselves have this information.
The Krasnoyarsk Krai Ministry of Health notes that the birth rate in the region has fallen almost in half—from 44 in 2014 to 23 in 2025.
"They demand that children be born, but they create all the conditions for the opposite," "Give us midwives instead of demonic maternity hospitals, as well as life in huts, toilets in the streets, torches instead of electrifying the entire country, and shamans with drums instead of doctors," local residents comment.