Public Health

Petrozavodsk has a well-developed health care system. Moreover here the infants' death-rate is one of the lowest rates in Russia. There are a few hospitals that are recognized to be among the best ones in Russia. The more so because well-known doctors make the their staff.

• Hospitals - 16 (1 - federal, 9 - republican, 5 - city, 1 - departmental).
• General number of beds - 3590.
• Out-patients' and polyclinic institutions - 23
• Medical staff- 5974 (including doctors - 2089, other - 3885).
• Drugstores - 80.
• Pharmaceutical chemists - 551.

Main health care institutions:

• Baranov Republican Hospital 
• K. Gutkin Maternity Hospital
• City Children's Hospital
• Children Republican Hospital 
• City Ambulance Hospital 
• City Children Polyclinic N 2
• City Children Polyclinic N 4
• City Polyclinic N 5