“All surgical medical care in Nizhny Tagil was provided in full,” RIA Novosti quoted an official as saying.

According to him, there were no failures, no complaints from the population about the rejection or problems associated with surgical intervention.

Krekov also informed that six people wrote a letter of resignation, but after talking with the head of the regional Ministry of Health Andrei Tsvetkov, the majority of the staff decided to stay.

Earlier, URA.RU reported that two surgeons of the Central City Hospital decided to withdraw the letter of resignation.

The Kremlin said they drew attention to the situation. As the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted, these reports are a reason for the reaction of local authorities.