The Moscow government’s plans for the construction and renovation of medical institutions were announced on December 25 by Moscow Deputy Mayor for Social Development Anastasia Rakova in an interview with RIA Novosti.
In the capital, in the next 5-7 years it is planned to reconstruct the Sklifosovsky Institute, the Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 52 and the Demikhov Municipal Clinical Hospital, as well as to build a children’s hospital with 1,000 beds.
Rakova, citing the decision of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, said that “Instead of the obsolete Soviet buildings of the Sklifosovsky Institute, we are building a new center. The center will be very large and modern.”.
It is planned to construct new buildings on the territory of the city clinical hospital No. 52.
The deputy mayor also announced plans to complete the clinic capital repair program in a year and a half to two.
He clarified that at this time “200 buildings have been renovated and they are already accepting patients”. In the near future, the program should cover another 140 clinics.
Previously, in the newspaper Essence of Time No. 99, it was reported about the reduction of staff and beds in Moscow medical institutions, for example, in the famous Morozov Children’s Hospital, as well as in the Institute of Emergency Medicine that runs its name. Sklifosovsky.
Then the officials explained the optimization by the need to reorganize medicine, its “lack of profitability and inefficiency”as well as cuts in funding for the healthcare system.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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