Doctors before surgery. Archival photoKHERSON, May 14. Kherson Regional Children's Hospital may be in the top ten hospitals in Russia, Acting Chief Physician of the medical institution Viktor Burdovitsyn told reporters during a visit to Kherson by State Duma Vice Speaker Anna Kuznetsova.
"Our hospital was in the top five in Ukraine. I wanted us to take the same worthy place in Russia. Let it be in the top ten, not five. I agree, given that there are more of you", — said Burdovitsyn.
According to the acting chief physician, the 540-bed hospital is operating at full capacity. Children are accepted from the first hours of life to five years. The deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region, Kirill Stremousov, told RIA Novosti earlier that the Kherson region intends to apply to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to be included in Russia.
Kuznetsova discussed with the Kherson authorities uninterrupted food suppliesOn March 15, Russian troops took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country. Later, military-civilian administrations began to form in this region and in the south of neighboring Zaporozhye, the process of broadcasting Russian television and radio broadcasting was launched, and the population began to use Russian rubles more widely in settlements. Russia began a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» Donbass.