Under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Mercury of Rostov and Novocherkassk, a plenary meeting of the Congress of Sisterhoods of Charity of the Don Metropolis took placetranslated

On November 11, 2026, a plenary meeting of the Congress of Sisterhoods of Charity of the Don Metropolis “Organization of modern nursing ministry: challenges and prospects” was held at the Rostov State University of Transport. The meeting was chaired by the Head of the Don Metropolis, Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk Mercury.

The presidium included the Deputy Governor of the Rostov region for labor and social policy, healthcare, ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population Olesya Starzhinskaya, the chief physician of the Central Clinical Hospital of St. Alexy (Moscow) Alexey Zarov and the head of the department for church charity and social service of the Rostov-on-Don diocese, Priest Evgeny Osyak.

The plenary meeting was attended by the Minister of Health of the Rostov Region Nairi Vardanyan, the Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Rostov Region Irina Shuvalova, the chief physician of the 1602nd military clinical hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Valery Kokoev, the rector of the Rostov State Transport University Vladimir Vereskun, the head of the department of assistance to military hospitals of the Synodal Department for...