Layoffs at Minusinsk Hospital: Nurses are being offered cleaning jobs.
Layoffs at the Minusinsk hospital could affect between 200 and 345 employees. Nurses are being offered positions as cleaners and orderlies, despite Governor Mikhail Kotyukov's assurances in 2025 that no widespread layoffs were planned at the region's hospitals.
Layoffs at Minusinsk Hospital: What's Known
Abbreviations in Minusinsk inter-district hospital, according to some sources, may touch from 200 to 345 mid-level and junior medical staff, as well as administrative personnel. Doctors already got notices offering qualified nurses alternative positions as cleaners, orderlies, housekeepers and handymen.
Specifically, sources tell local media that the surgical department has cut the positions of operating room and dressing nurses. In other departments, employees are not being formally laid off, but their pay is being cut—medical workers will have to perform the same duties for less pay.
The Ministry of Health confirmed layoffs in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
At the Ministry of Health Krasnoyarsk Territory fact of staff reduction confirmedHowever, they noted that this will not affect doctors, there are no plans to close departments, and the volume of medical care will remain the same. The exact number of layoffs has not yet been announced.
The layoffs taking place in Krasnoyarsk Krai contradict the governor's public statements. Mikhail KotyukovIn 2025, during the direct line, he assured residents that “no mass layoffs are planned in the region’s hospitals,” and that it is only a matter of internal “redistribution.”
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