Putin announced additional payments to primary care physicians from January 2023

President Vladimir Putin said that the payment system in primary health care needs to be improved, and the government has such a task. From January 2023, the government was instructed to start additional payments to primary care physicians – from 4.5 to 18.5 thousand rubles. About this Mr. Putin informed at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights via videoconference.

In different regions of the Russian Federation, the cost of living is different, the cost of living is different and the salary is completely different, not only in the healthcare sector, but also in other areas, Vladimir Putin noted. “But in general, of course, we must strive to ensure that the experiment that the government has already begun to conduct to equalize the level of income in the healthcare system so that it is not forgotten is for the future,”— declared he.

“Now, without delay, we need to take some steps to support doctors, and in this regard, I instructed the government to prepare appropriate proposals,” the president said.

“Of course, you need to start with primary health care, from January next year I asked the government to start additional payments to physicians working in this primary health care in central district hospitals, in district hospitals and in the ambulance system – additional payments from 4.5 thousand to 18.5 thousand rubles. depending on what the medical worker does, what position he occupies, what functions he performs,” Vladimir Putin said.

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Maria Fedotova