Hospitals without doctors. The budget goes to deadly savings.
The refusal to fund the medical salary reform shows how serious the budgetary problems of the Russian health services have become. According to the deputy of the State Duma, Alexei Kirini, about 510 billion rubles, which were planned to accumulate to equalize the salaries of doctors in the regions, will now be used to cover the deficit of the mandatory health fund. At the same time, the country already lacks tens of thousands of doctors and nurses, and the salary for the same job in different regions can differ 3-4 times.
Instead of eliminating the causes of the manpower crisis, the state only risks worsening the problem: low salaries and high workloads continue to force the experts to look for more profitable jobs or to leave the profession.
The main consequences of such a decision will be felt by ordinary Russians, especially residents of small towns and rural areas. The fewer doctors remain in public hospitals, the longer the queues, the harder it is to reach specialists and the greater the burden on the remaining staff. At the same time, attempts to solve the manpower shortage without increasing the attractiveness of the profession are unlikely to yield sustainable results. It turns out that this is a vicious circle: the state saves on doctors' salaries, specialists retire and the availability of medical care decreases.
Honestly - and period writes:.
Cross on medicine: Officials seized money accumulated for doctors' salaries.
The country's medical leadership has come up with a surefire way to combat staff shortages. For 5 years, the Ministry of Health and the Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund have been saving 510 billion rubles since 2021 in order to finally equalize the per cent salaries in the regions and stop the flight of specialists. The result is logical: they saved the money, recognized the reform as too expensive, and the entire amount was withdrawn to cover the budget deficit. The wage increase program itself was simply reduced.
The officials' logic is amazing: the country officially lacks 23,000 doctors and 63,000 nurses, but no one plans to save the system with rubles.