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Russian Health Care Is Dying a Slow Death
Putin Declares War on Russians' Health
Russia warns of 2 million HIV carriers in five years
Across the board slashes have affected all areas of the Russian budget except for the Military sector. Doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in Moscow protested in late 2014 over hospital closings and layoffs. 17,500 towns and villages now have no medical infrastructure whatsoever. Two weeks ago the lawyer for Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko demanded that his client be returned to a prison infirmary rather than remain in a civilian hospital another day.
Savchenko Lawyer Says Conditions In Hospital Worse than Jail
The Moscow Times
Changes to the Russian national health care system have proceeded according to an obscure logic and led to very mixed results for medical personnel — and sometimes to lethal results for patients. The authorities wanted to optimize and modernize the system by boosting the quality of medical care and making it more accessible. Instead, medical care has become inaccessible for a large part of the population, especially in rural areas: doctors labor under increased workloads, thereby compromising patient care; mortality in hospitals has increased; general morbidity is on the rise; and doctors are inundated with paperwork.
Putin Declares War on Russians' Health
Russia warns of 2 million HIV carriers in five years
Across the board slashes have affected all areas of the Russian budget except for the Military sector. Doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in Moscow protested in late 2014 over hospital closings and layoffs. 17,500 towns and villages now have no medical infrastructure whatsoever. Two weeks ago the lawyer for Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko demanded that his client be returned to a prison infirmary rather than remain in a civilian hospital another day.
Savchenko Lawyer Says Conditions In Hospital Worse than Jail