He added that the chief physician of the Demidov city hospital Sergey Ovsyannikov and the chief physician of the Central City Hospital No. 1, Oleg Nikolaev, were suspended from work.

“They were suspended for the duration of the audit, this is a standard procedure, the audit will complete in two weeks,” Ugrinov said.

Earlier it became known that five surgeons in Nizhny Tagil took the letter of resignation.

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, commenting on the situation, announced the holding of a meeting on this issue. In turn, the deputy governor of the Sverdlovsk region Pavel Krekov noted that the mass dismissal of surgeons from the Central City Hospital No. 1 of Nizhny Tagil did not affect the provision of medical care to the population.