Power outages threaten the lives of hospital patients in Dagestan.

Due to frequent power outages and a lack of backup power, vital medical equipment is not working at the Tsuntinsky District Hospital, local residents said.

Residents of Dagestan's Tsuntinsky District have long been experiencing problems due to the unstable operation of their local hospital. For seriously ill patients, equipment outages pose a direct threat to their lives, they noted.

The patients' video message was published on the Telegram channel "Tema Dagestan," which has over 17,000 subscribers.

"My father is in the intensive care unit in critical condition. The problem is that the hospital has no backup power, which is affecting the patient's treatment – ​​we can't provide oxygen, and we can't monitor the patient's vital signs," a district resident says in the video.

According to her, the hospital loses such patients every time without emergency care. The Tsuntinsky district is highland and the most remote from Makhachkala, where power outages are common, and emergency situations are common.

"We ran out of oxygen, there was no power, and we covered the patient as best we could," the woman said. Other district residents supported her, calling on the Dagestan Minister of Health and the head of the republic to respond to the problem.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that high-mountain villages of Dagestan faced heavy snowfalls, which effectively cut them off from the outside world. The bad weather cut off power, and farm animals died due to a lack of feed. However, authorities provided little information about the problems in hard-to-reach villages.

In the mountainous areas, emergency situations are caused not by floods, but by avalanche danger and landslides, Dagestan head Sergei Melikov stated on April 14 at a meeting with journalists and bloggers. He explained that fog, snowfall, and the lack of a landing site due to the threat of avalanches prevented the dispatch of EMERCOM aircraft and air ambulances. "Makhachkala, Adilyotar, and Mamedkala are all in the news, but at the same time, the situation in the mountainous regions is very difficult," Melikov explained.

Floods caused by heavy rains began in the North Caucasus Federal District in late March and have become some of the most destructive in recent years. Dagestan and Chechnya suffered the most from the natural disaster, according to the "Caucasian Knot" report "Spring Flooding in the North Caucasus - 2026".

The "Caucasian Knot" has compiled materials about flooding in the republics of the North Caucasus Federal District in the spring of 2026 on the thematic page "Flooding in the North Caucasus".