In the Tula region revealed the main causes of child mortality

The draft updated regional program “Protection of Motherhood and Childhood” provides statistics on child mortality in the Tula region. According to the document, in 2025, among children and adolescents who died at home, injuries and poisoning were the most common cause - 24 cases, or 70.6%. Of these, five children were poisoned by carbon monoxide, another five by other substances.

In addition, children died from drowning, suffocation due to food, in road accidents, when falling from a height and from lightning strikes. The second place in the number of deaths was occupied by infectious and parasitic diseases.

Outside the home and medical facilities, death also occurred mainly due to injuries and poisonings.

Most children under the age of 17 died in public health facilities in the region. Infants were most often killed in hospitals.

Earlier, “MK in Tula” reported that in the Tula region mortality from heart attacks decreased by 10% compared to the same period last year – this was told by the Deputy Chairman of the government of the region Dmitry Markov. Federal specialists assessed the organization of assistance for cardiovascular diseases and noted the professionalism of Tula cardiologists.