Maternity hospital No. 1 in Novokuznetsk

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2026: Quarantine closure and dismissal of head physician due to death of 9 infants

On January 13, 2026 Investigative Committee Russia , he announced that a criminal case had been opened in the Kemerovo region on the death of newborns in maternity hospital No. 1 in the city of Novokuznetsk. During the New Year holidays medical , nine babies died in this institution.

According to RBC, referring to information received from representatives of the Ministry of Health of Kuzbass, newborns died of severe intrauterine infection. They received medical assistance in accordance with clinical recommendations, but doctors failed to save the lives of babies.

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The criminal case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing death by negligence) and part 3 of article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence). Investigators and criminologists work in the maternity hospital, medical documentation is seized, forensic medical examinations have been appointed, the results of which will establish the exact cause of death of newborns. In addition, officials of the medical institution are being interrogated.

The Governor of the Kemerovo Region Ilya Seredyuk announced that the chief physician of the Novokuznetsk City Clinical Hospital No. 1 Vitaly Kheraskov was temporarily removed from office. Maternity hospital No. 1, located at this medical institution, stopped receiving women in labor. The prosecutor's office, with the involvement of specialists from Rospotrebnadzor and Roszdravnadzor, organized an audit of the institution's compliance with the requirements of legislation on health care, the protection of the rights of minors and compliance with sanitary and epidemiological standards and requirements in the maternity hospital. At the same time, the website of the maternity hospital itself says that the hospitalization of patients has been suspended due to "exceeding the threshold for the incidence of respiratory infection in an obstetric hospital^[1]

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