News archive on the topic "Healthcare"

The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, held a meeting with young medical workers in remote cities and regions of the republic and presented them with New Year's gifts. This was reported on the official website of the head of state, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. According to Pushilin, the republic is doing everything possible to support young specialists, and special attention is paid to those who have decided to connect their professional...

In the State Duma of the Russian Federation, just as earlier in the Federation Council, they refuted the claims of non-system liberals and the parliamentary opposition that funds allocated from the state budget for healthcare are being reduced in Russia. This was stated by the Chairman of the Duma Budget Committee Andrei Makarov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The data is given based on actual budget execution. This is really wasted money. So. 2017 –…

Ukrainian medicine is faced with a catastrophic shortage of money and is on the verge of disaster. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication Apostrophe, the former Minister of Health of Ukraine, President of the All-Ukrainian Society of Doctors Oleg Musiy. According to him, the announced figure - 57 billion hryvnia, which is not enough to finance domestic medicine, does not help the situation. “The amount is 57 billion…

Due to insufficient funding, Ukraine's healthcare is deteriorating and doctors are leaving en masse. The founder of the ANTS network, Yaroslav Sidorovich, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, in terms of healthcare spending as a share of GDP, Ukraine lags behind countries such as Russia and China. “We are now between India and Indonesia. Us…

In Crimea, during the years when the peninsula became part of Ukraine, a catastrophic situation in the healthcare sector has developed. Over the past six years, it has not improved due to the fact that federal funds allocated by the center do not reach the final implementation. The former prosecutor of Crimea, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Natalya Poklonskaya stated this on the radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If you come in...

The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, held a conference call with the heads of medical institutions on the situation in the healthcare system during the spread of coronavirus infection. The transcript of the meeting was published on the official website of the head of the republic, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. At the meeting, they discussed health issues - the epidemiological situation in the DPR, the organization of the work of repurposed hospital bases, the provision of medical institutions with medicines and...

Due to the fact that the epidemiological situation in the DPR is stable and under control, the academic year in the republic will begin on September 1 and will proceed as usual. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this during a meeting with the heads of city and district administrations, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In a pandemic, the situation in the Republic with the spread of coronavirus...

A significant portion of the US population, especially in rural areas, lacks access to hospitals and quality healthcare. Peter Kuznik, a history professor at American University, said this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, answering the question whether the COVID-19 pandemic could lead the United States to healthcare for everyone, and not just for those who have insurance or a lot of money for a trip...

American healthcare has demonstrated that it is unable to cope with the large influx of patients. Virologist and head of the MIPT genome engineering laboratory Pavel Volchkov spoke about this in an interview with Izvestia, answering the question why in the United States there is such a difficult situation with the spread of coronavirus infection and such a large number of cases. According to him, several factors came together in the United States: a huge country...

The new Minister of Health of Ukraine announced the continuation of the so-called. medical reform aimed at eliminating social guarantees and reducing opportunities for receiving medical care. All this is happening against the backdrop of the coronavirus epidemic. Lawyer Elena Lukash stated this on TV channel 112 Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, the name of the Minister of Health is important to me, but much more important is how this minister...

Soviet healthcare was more effective than today's Ukrainian medicine, which is only capable of milking money from every Ukrainian. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V-VII convocations Elena Bondarenko stated this on the NEWSONE channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Zelensky’s approach scares me when he says, “We need to borrow twice as much money.” Actually, the head of state should think...

Together with the impoverishment of the Ukrainian population, the planned implementation of medical reform will completely destroy the Ukrainian healthcare system. The chief physician of the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health, Boris Todurov, stated this on air on the Nash TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They are trying to impose the English system of the National Health Service on us, but there is no money in our budget to pay for each service at the tariffs...

Ukrainian scientists who developed a domestic test for detecting coronavirus were sent on vacation at their own expense. Oksana Piven, a senior researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, wrote about this on her Facebook, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “Yes, we, and not only our institute, are now on vacation at our own expense. There are problems with basic financing...

It will not make sense for Ukrainian medical institutions to treat patients with tariffs for medical care for the population, which come into force in April 2020. Lawyer and specialist in medical law Maxim Baryshnikov stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have not created a full-fledged private health insurance system. The health insurance company is the only entity in…