There are not enough beds for women in labor at the closing maternity hospital in Krasnoyarsk.
Krasnoyarsk Mayor Sergei Vereshchagin admitted that the regional government has not discussed the closure of maternity hospitals with the mayor's office. The maternity hospital at City Hospital No. 20 is scheduled to close in January, although it is operating at capacity.
Head Krasnoyarsk Sergey Vereshchagin said, that the regional government has not discussed plans to close maternity hospitals with the mayor's office. According to him, this issue is solely in the hands of regional officials, led by the governor. Mikhail Kotyukov.
"I also believe that such issues need to be approached thoroughly, meticulously, and carefully," Vereshchagin explained at a meeting with Krasnoyarsk residents. "If we make such decisions at the regional level, we must communicate them: how women in labor will be routed, and which maternity hospitals will be open."
The maternity hospital at Hospital No. 20 is operating at capacity.
Moreover, the official reason for the closures—a decline in the birth rate—stands in stark contrast to the actual situation in the departments. For example, the maternity hospital at Hospital No. 20, scheduled to close as early as January, is operating at capacity.
On words head of the institution Marina Mencik, of the 53 beds, 50 are currently occupied, all four delivery rooms are full.
In 2025, the maternity hospital at City Hospital No. 20 handled 2207 births—more than some other maternity hospitals in the city. Beds in the obstetrics department were occupied for an average of 319 days last year, and in the pregnancy pathology department, 299.
Maternity hospitals in Krasnoyarsk are closing, with staff layoffs.
The staff of the maternity hospital at Hospital No. 20 already handed notices of layoffs. Previously, under a similar pretext, regional authorities initiated In Krasnoyarsk, maternity hospitals No. 4 and No. 6 are closing.