Department of Health of the Lipetsk Region

History

2025

Appointment as Head of the Ministry of Health of the Lipetsk Region

On November 17, 2025, Lilia Samoshina was appointed acting head of the Ministry of Health of the Lipetsk Region. In this position, she replaced Anna Markova, who headed the department since December 2023. Read more here

Dismissal of Minister of Health Anna Markova

In November 2025, the Minister of Health of the Lipetsk Region Anna Markova announced a significant step in her career - she quit and accepted the offer of the rector of the Russian University of Medicine to join the team of the Lipetsk branch. This event was the fulfillment of the dream of the medical community of the region, supported by the governor Igor Artamonov. Markova noted that this is not just a change of work, but the continuation of a joint path with medical workers who make healthcare stronger. Read more here

Lipetsk region allocated ₽900 million for the purchase of medical equipment in 2025

Lipetsk region allocated more than ₽900 million in 2025 to update and equip hospitals and clinics with modern medical equipment. The funds came both from the regional budget and within the framework of the federal national project "Long and Active Life." This was reported by the press service of the regional government in October 2025.

According to Kommersant, the allocated funds were directed to the purchase of 371 units of medical equipment for various purposes. The list of purchased equipment includes endoscopic systems, ultrasound machines, mammographs and X-ray machines.

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Thanks to the new equipment, doctors in the city of Gryazi were able to carry out minimally invasive operations on the joints and organs of the abdominal cavity. Unlike open surgery, such interventions are less traumatic and more effective.

Modern surgical systems allow specialists to work with magnifying optics, which ensures the accuracy of manipulations at the level of microscopic surgery. This significantly improves treatment outcomes and shortens the rehabilitation period for patients.

The Governor of the Lipetsk Region Igor Artamonov noted that equipping district hospitals with modern equipment allows providing high-tech medical care on the ground. He stressed that this not only reduces the length of treatment and rehabilitation of patients, but also increases the availability of high-quality medicine for residents of municipalities in the region.

Endoscopic systems have become one of the priority areas for the purchase of medical equipment. These complexes allow diagnostic and treatment procedures through natural openings or minimal incisions, which significantly reduces the trauma of interventions.^[1]

2024

Healthcare development: Artificial intelligence, its own medical university and ₽1 billion for clinics

Lipetsk region modernizes the system, health care introducing innovative technologies, creating its own medical school and updating the infrastructure. The key directions of the development of medicine in the region became known in October 2024 after a meeting between the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko and the Governor of the region. Igor Artamonov

According to Vedomosti, one of the main projects will be the creation of a medical university in the Lipetsk region. According to Governor Artamonov, in the first year it is planned to recruit 100 students to the Faculty of Medicine and 50 to pediatrics. Priority will be given to the training of specialists most in demand in the region: pediatricians, therapists, neurologists, ophthalmologists and others.

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An important area of ​ ​ healthcare development in the region was the introduction of artificial intelligence in diagnostics. An AI service for analyzing fluorographic research is already operating in 20 medical institutions in the region, capable of analyzing a large amount of data with 15 accuracy in 95% minutes. An AI system for analyzing mammographic images is also being tested.

Eduard Kochurov, head of the X-ray office of the radiation diagnostics department of the regional oncology dispensary, noted that AI copes with its work 100%, while people's work often depends on the human factor.

To attract qualified personnel in the region, the program "Governor's one and a half million" is operating. Thanks to her, it was possible to attract Doctor of Medical Sciences Sergei Stupakov, who previously worked at the A. N. Bakulev National Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. He has already performed the first operation to install an electrocardiostimulator in the Lipetsk Regional Clinical Hospital.

Work on the modernization of medical infrastructure is underway both in Lipetsk and in regional hospitals. In addition, the construction of a new multi-clinic in the densely populated area of ​ ​ the regional center is being completed, which will serve both adults and children.^[2]

The deputy head of the Health Department of the Lipetsk Region was detained

On April 4, 2024, FSB officers detained Lyudmila Cherednikova, deputy head of the Lipetsk Region Health Department. The security forces, according to available information, took the official to Voronezh for investigative measures. Read more here.

2023: Anna Markova's appointment as head of department

At the end of December 2023, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation agreed on the appointment of Anna Markova as the new head of the health department of the Lipetsk region. Prior to that, she worked as deputy head of the department. Read more here.

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