Aksyonov said that according to the results of monitoring, the hotline of the Ministry of Health of the Republic 8 (800) 733-33-34 turned out to be “in fact inoperative”.

“In this regard, a decision was made to dismiss Georgy Vladimirovich Kravets, Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Crimea, from the substituted position as responsible for organizing the hotline,” he wrote on VKontakte.

At present, according to him, the required staff and additional technical lines are being calculated to normalize the work of the hot line of the Ministry of Health of the Republic.

The head of Crimea also reprimanded Taras Cheslavsky, director of the Krym-Pharmacy chain of pharmacies, due to the fact that during the check only 49 out of 101 of them were able to get through.

“If the problem of communication with the remaining pharmacies is not resolved by Monday, the head of the GUP will be fired for insufficient work on organizing the reception of calls from citizens during an acute epidemiological situation,” Aksyonov added.

At the end of November, a single telephone number 122 was introduced in Russia, by which citizens in the event of a coronavirus infection COVID-19 can call a doctor at home or an ambulance.

Mobile operators have made free calls to the COVID-19 line.