"On the fact of non-compliance with the requirements for medical clothing by an employee of the Tula Regional Clinical Hospital, the Ministry of Health reports that a disciplinary sanction was applied to a nurse who violated these requirements in an infectious hospital in the form of a remark," the Tula News agency quotes.

The Ministry of Health also emphasized that an explanatory conversation was held with the medical staff of the hospital about the need to comply with the requirements for sanitary clothing and appearance. 

In addition, measures have been taken to strengthen control over the use of special clothing and personal protective equipment.

Local media wrote that in the Tula region a nurse of an infectious diseases hospital came to patients in a transparent protective suit through which a swimsuit was visible.

Earlier in the Rostov region launched the production of protective suits for doctors.