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14 thousand Moscow doctors to lose their jobs

Source: RBC

According to an agreement reached by Moscow authorities and the Health Ministry, by 2018, there should be 40.9 doctors per 10 thousand people in Moscow, RBC reports.

According to RBC, there are currently 64.9 thousand doctors working in Moscow, and to reach the provisions of the new agreement, this number must be reduced to 50.8 thousand doctors.

The agreement is dated May 20, 2014 and has been signed by deputy mayor Leonid Pechatnikov and deputy health minister Airat Farrakhov. The documents state that the doctor provision index has been calculated based on federal and state medical institutions. It is expected that the surplus funds resulting from the reorganization will be used to increase salaries of healthcare personnel.

Pechatnikov confirmed that this agreement exists, but stated that the index cited in the documents does not include federal medical institutions (clinics attached to specific federal institutions), and that the ratio of doctors to Muscovites will not actually change. Moscow’s public health department also reports that the plan does not include federal clinics, despite the fact that the documents published by RBC state otherwise.

The documents state that funds resulting from the reorganization of ineffective medical institutions will be used to increase the salaries of healthcare personnel. Salary increases for doctors are included in President Vladimir Putin’s decrees issued in May 2012. According to the decrees, doctors’ salaries must stand at 200% of the regional average salary by 2018.

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In 2014, in accordance with a program on the optimization of healthcare in Moscow, over 9,500 medical employees were fired, including 3,500 doctors.

In the fall of 2014, it was reported that Moscow authorities planned to close 20 medical institutions. It was expected that the resulting extra funds would be used to increase the salaries of medical employees to meet one of the decrees issued by President Vladimir Putin in May of 2012 shortly after his inauguration.

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