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Ministry of public health care of the Republic of Karelia
VII Congress of the Medical Staff of the Republic of Karelia
On May 11, VII Congress of medical staff of the Republic of Karelia was open. The Congress has been held for the first time after 37 years brake (the last one was held in 1964). It was organized by the Ministry of public health care of the Republic of Karelia, the Republican Committee of trade-union of medical staff, and the Executive direction of the Karelian Territorial Fund of obligatory medical insurance.
The main objective of the Congress was to sum up the public health care system activities in the Republic of Karelia, to solve the issues of social defense and salaries for medical staff.
The Government of the Republic of Karelia approved of conducting the Congress.
Sergey Katanandov, Head of the Government of the Republic of Karelia has opened the Congress.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia, the Counselor of the Representative of the Ministry of public health care of the Russian Federation in the Northern-western federal district, the Executive Director of the medical association "North-Western Public Health Care System", heads and deputy heads of local power bodies of the Republic of Karelia were present at the Congress.
The medical staff of republican and city medical institutions (123 delegates all- in- all) have participated in the work of the Congress.
G. Ogloblin, the Minister of public health care of the Republic of Karelia has made a report.
Having discussed the issues of the situation with public health care in the Republic of Karelia and analyzed strategic the trends of the public health care system development, determined by the Government of the Republic of Karelia and envisioned by the "Concept of public health care system development for 1999-2003", the Congress came to the conclusion that the priorities, selected in the Republic and aimed at prophylaxis and primary health care system development, improving management system, optimization of the mechanics of financing, better quality and availability of medical service meet the republican needs - to view people's health as the base of national security of the Russian Federation.
The report was followed by a discussion where 14 people took part. It was pointed out that the public health care system faces the problems that could be solved only on the level of legislation, government, and local power bodies.
The Congress adopted a resolution where the following problems were listed:
- incompletion of structural reconstruction of public health care system, which hampers coordinated policy efforts in the area of public health care, public health care system development, governmental guarantees for population;
- lack of financing - shortage of means for providing the state guarantee program for free medical care makes 30-40% ;
- lack of public health care system legislation;
- low medical staff salaries, lack of their social defense, low social professional status;
- hidden commercialization of state and municipal public health care institutions, caused by the imperfection of the medical insurance system;
- lack of power bodies attention, in particular local power bodies, to the issues of primary health care and prophylactic systems, availability of medical assistance and medical social service development.
The Congress determined the ways of solving these problems.
Last updated: 22 May 2001
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