In Ivanovo, by court decision, a blood transfusion was given to a child whose parents refused the procedure for religious reasons.

January 13, 2017 Leninsky District Court of Ivanovo satisfied the claim of the district prosecutor's office and gave the doctors of the Ivanovo regional clinical hospital permission for a blood transfusion to a girl whose parents refused this manipulation, referring to religious beliefs.

The child was admitted to the hematology department the day before with diagnosed with severe anemia of uncertain origin. The girl's father informed doctors about their disagreement with the daughter's transfusion of donor blood, but the doctors considered that this must be done for health reasons, and turned to prosecutor's office, and that - to the court.

Having received permission from the court, the doctors gave the girls a transfusion, her life is out of danger.

Telling about this case, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", which is on the refusal of transfusions are usually insisted on by “followers of radical sects who put their religious beliefs are higher than concern for the life of a child.” The article mentions the incident in the Moscow hospital, where a child died, whose mother "turned out to be a follower of the sect "Jehovah's Witnesses"" and did not consent to donated blood transfusion. Sources

• In the Ivanovo region, thanks to the prosecutor's office, the child received a vital blood transfusion // Website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 2017. January 17.
• Skudayeva A. Ivanovo doctors transfused blood to a sick child through the court // Russian newspaper. 2017. January 18.