Why are hospitals being closed en masse in Russia?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Indeed, many hospitals have been closed in Russia. However, let's take a look at a graph with a breakdown of the urban and rural hospitals:

As you can see, the main reduction falls on rural hospitals.

First, it happened for objective reasons. The number of the rural population relative to the urban population has decreased significantly. Moreover, this reduction took place not at all in modern Russia, but back in the days of the USSR.

If we compare the number of rural and urban hospitals in 1990, then it is only slightly different, while in 1989, only a quarter of the country's population lived in rural areas.

Secondly, rural hospitals built in Soviet times were not equipped with modern equipment; there was a great shortage of qualified doctors to provide quality medical care. A thermometer and an enema is not the kind of treatment required for critically ill people who need hospitalization. And small hospitals in villages and villages could not offer other treatment, only a bed with a bedside duck.

Now there are no such a large number of hospitals as in Soviet times, however, any citizen of Russia under the compulsory medical insurance policy can receive highly qualified medical care in any city, regional or district center of our country.

In small villages and villages where old hospitals were closed, mobile teams of doctors now come with a full set of equipment to provide medical care to the rural population.

If a person suddenly has a health problem, then the doctor from the clinic will give a referral to the local hospital according to the profile of the disease. And if a patient needs an operation, he will receive a quota and will be operated on. Not a single Russian citizen will be left without medical care, despite the reduction in hospitals.

According to modern methods of treatment, staying in the hospital after the operation for as long as the operated patients were in Soviet times is not only unhealthy, but even harmful, since the hospital, alas, is not only a place for treatment, but also a place where concentration of various infections. And if a weakened human body after surgery picks up any of the viruses, then this leads to complications, instead of a speedy recovery. Therefore, now much less time a person is kept in a hospital than it was before. For this reason, there has been a slight reduction in the old city hospitals.

The state closed rural hospitals where it was impossible to provide highly qualified medical care. However, according to the state program "Health" built new medical and perinatal centers, equipped old hospitals with modern medical equipment: CT, MRI, ultrasound, bedside monitors, modern equipment for resuscitation. And also purchased for hospitals all the necessary medicines, which previously had to be obtained by relatives of patients, because they simply were not available in hospitals.

But the state spent money not only on these needs, but also on new ambulance and intensive care vehicles, since the patient's life often depends on first aid.

To attract highly qualified doctors to the village, a state program was adopted: "Zemsky Doctor" and "Young Specialist in the Village".

For doctors wishing to move from city to village, the state provides a lot of benefits and lifting benefits in the amount of 1 million rubles for buying a house or building a new house, since even after the number of hospitals has been reduced, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in the countryside, although the staff of the closed hospitals was transferred to those hospitals that remained there.

So who treated the sick in small villages and villages, if even when several teams of doctors from different closed hospitals were united, there was still a shortage of doctors in the countryside?

Probably, only our rEvolutionaries can answer this question, pulling the answer to it from their manual, like magicians from a magic hat.)))

In order for us to fully understand this topic, we need to look not at the numbers of closed hospitals, but at the result of the "Healthcare" state program.

The most objective indicator here is the average life expectancy of the population.

Let's now look at the graph of the average life expectancy in Russia in dynamics:

And here, note that the number of hospitals has been halved compared to 2000, but the average life expectancy in Russia has increased by 7 years! Moreover, it grew not only in relation to the dashing 90s, but also became higher than the best indicator of the Soviet era, since it did not reach the level of 70 years, and now it exceeds 72 years.

But not only on this indicator, I would like to focus your attention, but also on the indicators of the average life expectancy in the USSR.

Do you see that with the large number of hospitals that existed in the Soviet Union, life expectancy did not increase at all, and even in some periods it decreased?

How did it happen, comrades rEvolutionaries? After all, the number of hospitals under your beloved Communist Politburo grew, and the life of the average Soviet person did not change for 30 years! OOPS!)))

The point is not only in quantity, the main indicator here is not it at all, but the quality of highly qualified medical care that the hospital can provide!

What kind of medical assistance can such a hospital provide, eh?

In addition to a bed with a duck, a thermometer and an enema in it, they can no longer help the patient. However, such a set of medical "equipment" is not able to provide him with treatment.

Unlike similar hospitals of the Soviet era, medical centers have now been built all over Russia to the highest modern standards.

There is no other place in the world of such a highly qualified level as in the Dima Rogachev Children's Cancer Center built in Russia!

This children's cancer center now fully cures 90% of children with cancer. There is no other country in the world with such a high indicator for the treatment of oncological diseases!

Well, and a control shot in the head for our rEvolutionaries.)))

You have already noticed from the above graph that medicine in the Soviet era has not developed since the 60s? This is confirmed by the chart for infant mortality in relation to the United States:

You see, in the 60s the USSR and the USA had practically parity in this indicator. Infant mortality in those years in the Union was slightly higher than in the States. However, since the 70s, this indicator in the USSR has been constantly deteriorating, and by the time the Union collapsed, the infant mortality rate in the USSR was already 2 times higher than the infant mortality rate in the United States.

But hospitals and maternity hospitals at that time were not reduced at all, just the quality of medicine did not improve, in contrast to the quality of medicine in the United States!

Now let's look at the indicators in modern Russia.

If in the dashing 90s the quality of medicine has noticeably deteriorated, therefore, the infant mortality rate has grown even more, and it has become almost 3 times higher than in the States.

Let me remind you that the number of hospitals and maternity hospitals has not decreased. It remained at the same level as in the USSR.

It was only with Putin's coming to power that this negative dynamic was overcome.

Infant mortality began to decline from year to year, in 2015 it almost reached the level of infant mortality in the United States, and since 2016 it has become lower, because the state has allocated huge funds for the Healthcare state program to dramatically increase the quality of Russian medicine. And one of the main priorities of this state program is the construction of modern perinatal centers in Russia!

This timeline ends in 2018. However, in the first quarter of 2019, it was possible to achieve even lower infant mortality rates.

"Infant mortality in the first quarter decreased by 15.7%, reaching a historic low of 4.3 per thousand births, which is below the target values set by the decree by 2024," said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

Do you understand what achievements Putin's Russia has been able to achieve over the past 20 years regarding the quality of medicine?

For the first time in 60 years, infant mortality in Russia is lower than in the United States!

And you, comrades at the side, are all running around with your fig leaf with an indicator of the number of hospitals. You can wipe yourself with them now)))

Checkmate to you, rEvolutionaries!