Overview
- Authorities report nine neonatal deaths at Novokuznetsk Maternity Hospital No. 1 in early January, the ward is closed and the chief physician is suspended.
- The Investigative Committee opened cases for causing death by negligence and negligence, and on Alexander Bastrykin’s order the investigation was moved to the central office with federal experts assigned.
- Roszdravnadzor began a detailed audit of medical care and Rospotrebnadzor is overseeing sanitary compliance, with a planned preventive disinfection to follow patient discharge.
- Regional health officials cite prematurity and intrauterine infection among the infants while final forensic and epidemiological conclusions are pending, and four newborns remain in intensive care.
- Public records show more than 100 inspections since 2015 and 169 recent warnings for the hospital, and the governor ordered readiness checks across all Kuzbass maternity facilities.