An official from the Irkutsk region said that the purchase of expensive medicines for a child with SMA prevented the construction of a kindergarten — Novaya Gazeta Europe

Valentina Voblikova, Deputy Prime Minister of the Irkutsk Region, reproached Aziza Denisova, the mother of a child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), for buying an expensive medicine for her daughter that the authorities were forced to stop building a kindergarten. Denisova herself spoke about this in a video message published by BG Irkutsk. “Valentina Feofanovna [Voblikova] accused me of having to cancel the construction of a kindergarten in s…