MOSCOW, March 23 – RIA Novosti. Moscow authorities can cut another 14,000 doctors in 2015-2017, wrote on Monday, the newspaper “RBC” referring to the agreement between the Ministry of Health and the Government of Moscow.
The agreement states that the ratio of physicians to population excluding other medical staff was 40.9 per 10 thousand people in 2018. In Moscow at this time will be staying about 12.4 million people, according to the Moscow Department of Labor and Employment. Thus, to achieve the desired index in three years in the capital should remain 50.8 thousand doctors against 64.9 thousand working in the capital’s hospitals and clinics of different subordination of January 1, 2015, according to “RBC”.
Information about the reorganization of the Moscow healthcare system, caused a public outcry, was leaked to the media in October 2014. It was reported that some hospitals and maternity homes closed and more efficient multi-medical centers will be developed. Abbreviations physicians authorities promised to help in retraining for more popular destinations. After that, in the capital were several meetings of health professionals.
As the “RBC”, Deputy Mayor Leonid printers in an interview with the publication did not deny the existence of targets for doctors to 40.9 per 10 thousand people. But, according to him, this figure is calculated net of federal agencies. The actual population of doctors in Moscow will be much more based on the entire private network, which is in the capital. In Moscow, security – more than 60 physicians per 10,000 population, so it will remain in 2018.
The head of the Moscow Department of Health Alexei Khripun also commented on the paper agreement. According to him, it really exists, but currently there is an additional agreement prepared by taking into account the results achieved in 2014, so many of the indicators of the document have completely different meanings. At the same time, the official said that at the moment we are working on updating the agreement, and indicators will be adjusted.
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Also, according Khripun and Pechatnikova , the rate of 40.9 doctors per 10 thousand people take into account the number of doctors working in public institutions only. In addition to the institutions subordinated to the Moscow Health Department medical care to the population of the capital have more than 5,000 health care organizations of various forms of ownership. Overall rate of doctors in Moscow population greatly exceeds not only that figure, but the average figure for Russia
However, the agreement expressly stated that the indicator for calculated taking into account “the federal public health organizations,” stresses “RBC”. The federal Ministry of Health request “RBC” left unanswered, adds the publication.
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