The Ministry of Health of the Kama region gave clarifications on the provision of planned assistance to children

The Ministry of HEALTH of the Perm Territory issued an order to suspend preventive medical examinations of minors and medical examinations of orphans and children left without parental care and vaccination of the child population as part of the National Immunization Schedule. This is due to the sharply increased load on the primary link providing emergency and emergency care to children.

On January 26, Putin asked not to cancel the planned hospitalization of children due to covid-19 . The President believes that everything possible should be done so that routine medical care for children does not stop due to a surge in the incidence of CORONAVIRUS.

As the press service of the ministry explained to RBC Perm, the provision of specialized planned assistance to children has not been stopped. The advisory polyclinic of the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital is operating as usual. Planned hospitalization of children for all profiles of the disease is carried out in full. There are children's sanatoriums "Eaglet and Svetlana".

“Children’s polyclinics have organized the appointment of specialist doctors for children with diseases and conditions in which a delay in the provision of medical care for a certain time may lead to a deterioration in their condition, a threat to their life and health,” the press service of the Ministry of Health reported.

Patronage of pediatricians and nurses is carried out for children of the first month of life and children with disabilities. The work of doctors of preschool and school departments in educational organizations has not stopped.