“We need to support women, not ban abortions in private clinics”

During the spring session, deputies of the State Duma adopted 500 laws, almost a third of which (27%) were socially oriented, Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the lower house of parliament, reported at the last plenary session on July 26. Badma Bashankaev, elected chairman of the health committee on June 13 instead of Dmitry Khubezov, took part in the consideration of many of them already in his new status. In an interview with Vedomosti, he told under what circumstances he headed the committee, how the work on amendments to the law “On Psychiatric Care” was going on, and why deputies and representatives of charitable foundations did not understand each other. And also about how to solve the problem of medical personnel and whether it is necessary to ban abortions in private clinics.