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Only 15% of people with limited health capacities employed in Russia

Only 15% of Russian citizens with disabilities have a job, Chair of the Chamber’s Commission for barrier free environment for physically challenged people Diana Gurtskaya said during a round table conference on the employement of disabled persons on Friday.

12:14 07.08.2020

Russia’s Children Ombudsman backs SMA cure to be put on essential drugs list

The Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes that the adding of Spinraza medication to the Governmental list of vital and essential drugs is to become an important step in treatment of children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

14:16 04.08.2020

Ex-journalist Safronov charged with treason tests negative for COVID-19 – ombudsman

Two coronavirus tests ex-journalist Ivan Safronov charged with treason had passed gave negative results, Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights announced Friday citing a chief of Moscow’s Lefortovo detention center.

11:03 31.07.2020

Quarantine announced in two Moscow districts over domestic animals rabies

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin on Wednesday signed orders announcing quarantine until September 28 in two city districts as domestic animals rabies cases had been detected there.

16:33 29.07.2020

Putin: It is necessary to avoid repeated COVID-19 restrictions in Russia

It is necessary to do everything using preventive measures to avoid repeated extensive restrictions over the spread of coronavirus infection, President of Russia Vladimir Putin said during a briefing on Wednesday.

14:42 29.07.2020

Presidential Human Rights Council urges aid to persons facilitating fight against COVID-19

The Government needs to think over an extension of support measures to persons facilitating the combat doctors and medical establishments wage against the pandemic, according to members of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council.

14:49 27.07.2020

Russia’s penal colony for TBC patients ordered by court to set up quarantine ward

The Mariinsk City Court in the Kemerovo Region has obliged a local medical penitentiary facility for inmates with an active form of tuberculosis to create a probationary ward for newcomers.

11:39 09.07.2020

St. Petersburg outpatient clinic with 43 COVID-19 infected employees fined $1,400

An outpatient clinic in St. Petersburg where 43 employees had been infected with coronavirus was fined 100,000 rubles ($1,400) by the Frunzensky District Court.

12:39 07.07.2020

Muscovite gets 2-year suspended sentence for beating paramedic

The Lyublinsky District Court in Moscow has given a 2-year suspended sentence to a local citizen for beating an ambulance attendant, who had come to her daughter.

17:27 06.07.2020

Russia's regional resuscitator again acquitted of wrongful death of 5-year old girl

The Vologda Regional Court has for the second time acquitted Vologda Regional Clinical Hospital emergency physician Alexey Smironv, accused of the wrongful death of a 5-year old girl.

12:29 29.06.2020

Physical Rehabilitation Research Institute's CEO arrested in absentia on fraud charges

The Basmanny District Court in Moscow arrested in absentia Yevgeny Blum, the CEO of OOO Physical Rehabilitation and New Rehabilitation Technologies Research Institute, after the facility failed its commitment to restore to health freestyler Maria Chaadayeva (Komissarova), who had been paralyzed when participating in the Sochi Olympics.

12:59 09.06.2020

Russian government partially lifts departure restrictions

Russian citizens will be able to go abroad for medical and educational purposes.

15:32 08.06.2020

Over 2,000 complaints filed with federal children’s ombudsman during pandemic

Over 2,000 applications were filed with the Office of Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner during the coronavirus pandemic.

10:45 02.06.2020

Woman in Krasnodar Krai fined $420 for fake about ambulance doctors

A court in the Krasnodar Krai has fined a local woman 30,000 rubles ($420) for distribution of fake information about ambulance doctors.

17:17 28.05.2020

Investigators launch probe into sale of aged lung ventilators

Investigators of the town of Kostroma have opened a criminal case over sale of 50 lung ventilators the period of storage of which had already expired.

18:04 26.05.2020

Girl living in Moscow perinatal hospital for 5 years taken from hospital - ombudsman

A girl, who had lived in a Moscow perinatal center for 5 years, was taken from hospital, the city’s child rights commissioner Olga Yaroslavskaya announced Monday.

12:45 25.05.2020

Human Rights Council urges government to set rules on COVID-19 treatment of homeless

Chair of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has urged Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova to pay attention to the problems faced by homeless people affected by benign coronavirus disease.

18:03 18.05.2020

Medical students to care about COVID-19 patients on voluntary basis – ombudsman

St. Petersburg Rights Commissioner Alexander Shishlov has proposed that students taking practical courses in medical facilities providing care for coronavirus-infected patients are to deal with them only on the voluntary basis.

16:40 15.05.2020

Russia’s healthcare watchdog lays up lung ventilators over hospital fires

Russia’s Federal Supervisory Agency for Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) suspended exploitation of medical ventilators Aventa-M which had caused fires in two hospitals in Moscow and St. Petersburg on May 9 and 12.

12:56 13.05.2020

Owner of Moscow Region hospice pleads guilty in deadly fire case

An owner of a private hospice in the Moscow Region’s town of Krasnogorsk pleaded guilty and repented as part of a case over the fire that had led to the death of 11 patients.

13:10 12.05.2020