In the Moscow region, doctors saved more than 3.5 thousand premature babies in 2025.

Doctors in the Moscow region treated 3.5 thousand premature babies in 2025. The press service of the regional Ministry of Health reported this on Thursday, January 22.

"Last year, neonatologists in the Moscow region saved more than 3.5 thousand premature babies, including 288 born with an extremely low body weight of less than 1 kg," Maxim Zabelin, Deputy Chairman of the government of the Moscow Region and Minister of Health of the region, was quoted by the Moscow City News Agency as saying.

The press service clarified that in the Moscow region there is a three-tier system of medical care for pregnant women, women in labor and newborns, consisting of maternity hospitals, perinatal centers and research institutes of obstetrics and gynecology. 360.ru .

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Earlier, on December 15, it was reported that more than 60 thousand newborns have undergone advanced neonatal screening in the Moscow Region since the beginning of 2025. The examination makes it possible to identify 36 genetic diseases.

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