This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Mari El.
“Today we are forced to close the maternity ward in the Kozmodemyansk interdistrict hospital, it has been converted into an infectious diseases one.
All childbirth is now being carried out in Yoshkar-Ola in the perinatal center ... The gastroenterological, urological, neurosurgical departments have been redesigned, the recreation, the canteen, and the resident's rooms are occupied.
The hospital provides only emergency assistance, planned assistance has been suspended, ”the press service of the regional health minister Marina Pankova is quoted as saying.
It is specified that the Volzhskaya Central City Hospital also stops the planned care, and partially - the medical unit No. 1 and the Republican Clinical Hospital.
Earlier, the authorities of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced the introduction of compulsory vaccination against coronavirus infection COVID-19 for a number of categories of citizens.