Health Minister: Priority work directions to keep up
Tatiana Golikova: The directions of higher priority in healthcare will be maintained over the next three years, relevant expenses will grow
07.10.2008
The segment of expenses in the federal budget on health and social policy will increase by 24.1% in 2009, 27.3% in 2010, 28.3 in 2011. These were the dimensions of the draft three-year budget for 2009-11 Minister of Health and Social Development Tatiana Golikova reported while delivering her speech to the seminar meeting of the United Russia party dedicated to consideration of this draft law.
In this connection, Golikova noted, healthcare expenditures alone will see a rise of 25% in 2009 as compared to the previous year. She made it more precise that the figure has to do with ‘only the section, which is managed by our ministry.’ Meanwhile, a huge share of expenditures on healthcare is at hands of other departments, so the overall increase will reflect much higher figures.
Tatiana Golikova also informed that the directions of higher priority in healthcare will be maintained in full. In particular, she noted, it is planned to keep on the national programme of health and demographic policy, as well as the development of Primary Healthcare and prophylactic medical examination among population.