“There has been an explosive increase in the incidence, the number of visits to polyclinics has quadrupled.
In this regard, we made a difficult decision - to temporarily suspend the provision of planned outpatient medical care from January 25, and specialized inpatient care from February 1, with the exception of care for life-threatening conditions, ”he wrote on VKontakte.
He also added that medical workers of hospitals and dispensaries are gradually mobilized voluntarily to the outpatient department.
This applies to both adults and children's clinics.
Earlier in St. Petersburg, medical examinations and planned medical care in polyclinics were limited against the backdrop of the spread of the omicron coronavirus strain.
On January 12, the Director of the Scientific Information Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections, Georgy Vikulov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the situation with the pandemic against the backdrop of the spread of the Omicron strain.