Residents of the village of Leninkent complained about the operation of the new clinic.

A clinic has been built in Leninkent, but residents still haven't received adequate medical care. For two years now, the facility has been experiencing a shortage of specialists and equipment. Officials from the Dagestan Ministry of Health have promised to open a children's testing clinic at the clinic.

Due to the lack of necessary doctors and access to testing, residents of Leninkent are forced to travel to Makhachkala early in the morning, often with transfers, to get in line to see the right specialist.

A video message from residents was published by the "NNT News" Telegram channel, which has over 20,000 subscribers. By 6:00 AM, the post had garnered over three thousand views.

Residents of the village say the problem is particularly acute for families with children. Traveling to Makhachkala is expensive and time-consuming.

"I'm the mother of a newborn child, and it's a big problem to travel to the other end of the city to get tests done and see specialists. If you take a bus, you have to change trains, and if you take a taxi, it's 1,500 rubles round trip. It's very expensive for mothers with children. Therefore, with such a large clinic, we would like to have doctors who could do tests. We ask everyone to solve this problem together," a Leninkent resident complained in her appeal.

According to those appealing, the clinic has been built for two years, but it still suffers from a staff shortage.

"Another problem is that the doctors simply don't have cleaning staff. They have so much work to do, entering all the information into computers, and this takes a long time, meaning appointments are getting longer. It turns out that the doctors are cleaning themselves. How can they not allocate someone for so long?" "They're putting a cleaning lady in the offices," another woman complained.

Residents are wondering what the point of a large clinic is if it has no doctors and can't fully serve the population.

"Yes, they built a beautiful clinic building after numerous requests, but the building needs to be functional. The clinic needs specialists, which it doesn't have today. How can one understand the lack of pediatricians? The second problem is that they don't accept tests; when they built this building, they promised inpatient treatment. Then the question arises: after spending millions of rubles, what is this building for? Currently, the clinic doesn't meet the residents' needs," a local resident complained.

Following an appeal from Leninkent residents, Acting Minister of Health of Dagestan Aliomar Akhmedov met with the village's residents. They reported that currently, to get tested, they have to travel to Children's Polyclinic No. 5 on Popovich Street, which serves five villages and 46,000 children.

Akhmedov ordered a redistribution of staff and the organization of testing at the branch of the polyclinic on Sovkhoznaya Street, 10. A new polyclinic had previously opened in the same building, the Dagestan Ministry of Health reported on its Telegram channel.

"Now parents no longer need to travel to the capital - all necessary procedures will be carried out locally," the ministry said in a statement.

"Kavkazsky Knot" also reported that residents of the village of Leninkent reported that due to a lack of space at the local school, they are forced to send their children to school. to Makhachkala. Furthermore, children are forced to cross the dangerous federal highway between Makhachkala and Buinaksk.