It is reported by the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“Between December 2021 and January 2022, seven patients who were being screened died,” the department said.

At the end of January, it was reported that three patients of the clinic in St. Petersburg died after a diagnostic study, three more are in intensive care.

Later, it became known about the detention of the head doctor of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Health "City Consultative and Diagnostic Center No. 1".

According to the investigation, for a long time, medical services were provided in the said center using an industrial chemical preparation that was not included in the state register of medicines and did not meet the requirements for the safety of life and health of consumers.