Putin said about the success of support programs demographics
Moscow. March 8. INTERFAX.RU — Russian President Vladimir Putin said “enormous effect” on the implementation of the country program of construction of perinatal centers, said that Russia has successfully overcome the demographic problem.
“Thank God, in recent years we have managed to move this situation in a positive way. Nobody expected it, nobody believed that our programs support demographics so work. Last year, the indicators slightly declined, but the demographic trend is still positive,” he said during the meeting in Bryansk perinatal center staff.
As noted by the head of state, “in this respect we differ from many other so-called developed countries, especially in Europe, where negative demographic trends continue.”
“We started this program a few years ago in the framework of the program “Health” (national project) and it became immediately clear that the effect is not just big, but enormous,” Putin said, adding that the regions “immediately began to catch up the level of all health.”
The President stressed that in the framework of the national project “Health” and the subsequent programmes already built 75 perinatal centers until the end of this year, plans to open another 19.
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Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova said that the situation in 25 regions.
The President added that the infant mortality rate in Russia is lower than in Europe. Putin said that the program of development of perinatal centres from different sources it is planned to allocate a total of 83 billion roubles.