CrimeaPRESS reports:
Next year, they will continue to allocate money to provide high-tech medical care to patients, identify cancer diseases, and rehabilitate those who have recovered from COVID-19. Part of the funds will be used to increase salaries for junior medical staff. This follows from the draft budget of the Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund for 2024 and the planning period of 2025 and 2026. The document reports «Parliamentary newspaper»published on the portal of draft legal regulations.
Valuable employees
Next year they plan to increase the fund’s income by 20 percent compared to the current year. They will amount to 3.75 trillion rubles.
The main item of expenditure is a subvention to territorial funds to finance the basic compulsory medical insurance program. In 2024, the size of the subvention will increase by 13.6 percent and amount to 3.12 trillion rubles. This amount will allow every Russian with a policy to take advantage of the basic compulsory medical insurance program, including medical examination and high-tech medical care. The budget also includes money for the rehabilitation of people who have suffered coronavirus, assistance to patients with cancer, and high-tech assistance that is not included in the compulsory medical insurance program.
The explanatory note separately notes that the funds will ensure an increase in the wages of junior medical personnel based on the consumer price index from October 1.
Junior medical staff of hospitals plays an important role in ensuring the safety and comfort of patients and the functioning of a medical organization, Honored Doctor of Russia, State Duma deputy Tatyana Kusayko told Parliamentary Newspaper: “They are responsible for patients in the hospital. Any increase in wages for health workers is good. This could be another step towards reducing the shortage of healthcare professionals.”
The work of junior medical staff is hard and dirty, so this work must be paid with dignity, no worse than other hard work, says Mikhail Androchnikov, deputy chairman of the Russian Health Workers Trade Union:
Prices in stores are rising, wages must keep up with them. Otherwise, staff turnover will begin. It’s good that this expense item was included in the draft budget.
Help in rubles
The draft also states that next year 96.3 billion rubles will be spent on payments to health workers. The recipients will be 901.6 thousand people.
44.8 billion rubles are provided for payments to doctors; more than 253 thousand people will be recipients. Now this category of workers receives a monthly payment of 18.5 thousand rubles.
Doctors providing primary health care receive 14.5 thousand rubles monthly. For them, the MHIF budget provides 37 billion rubles — 212 thousand specialists will be recipients.
More than 1.6 billion rubles will be sent to emergency doctors — a total of 11,708 doctors who receive a monthly social payment in the amount of 11.5 thousand rubles.
2.7 billion rubles are provided for payments to junior medical staff. 50,455 employees will receive them. In district and district hospitals, the payment amount is 4.5 thousand rubles every month.
Expenses are also included for co-financing the salaries of doctors and paramedical personnel to eliminate personnel shortages, incentive payments for identifying cancer diseases, and financing medical care for residents of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
source: «Parliamentary newspaper»
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