Agenda: Implementation of initiatives on healthcare, education, social assistance, migration and public administration.
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Meeting on implementing socio-economic development initiatives to 2030 and their results
Mikhail
Mishustin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
We are
continuing a series of meetings on implementing strategic socioeconomic
development initiatives. Today, we will listen to reports by my deputies – Tatyana
Golikova, Alexei Overchuk and Dmitry Grigorenko. They will present detailed reports
on what has already been done in the projects they supervise and tell us about
their plans for the future.
Let’s start with
social initiatives.
Our priority is
to improve the living standards of our people. Naturally, it is the people who
will assess the results of our efforts.
We have launched
the Social Treasury initiative. The main task is to create a fair, targeted
support system for the people. The people who really need this support should
receive it – quickly and without much trouble, as the President instructed.
We started
introducing the new approach last year. We provided 11 support measures proactively,
without any applications. These included the maternity capital certificate, and
lump sum payments for children and pensioners, 65 million people in all.
By 2030, we must
move all types of assistance – federal, regional and municipal – to a uniform standard
so that they can be received without red tape via integrated centres or the
government services website. And, of course, the time for processing these
documents should be reduced from several days to several minutes.
Another major
area is protecting public health. The initiative on the country’s sanitary
shield, which is carried out at the President’s decision, has become a response
to the Covid pandemic and potential future challenges.
We must learn to
act in advance, to predict risks. If new viruses appear, we must quickly use
vaccines and diagnostic tools.
We have professionals
for this – epidemiologists, scientists and experts. We will supply them with
everything they need for their work. And we will continue building modern infection
centres and laboratories in the Russian regions.
In addition to countering
the coronavirus, it is necessary to continue resolving other healthcare problems
that are of particular concern to people, for instance, primary care. This system
is facing a tremendous challenge. It is under an enormous strain. Doctors are helping
many patients, but so far, their number has been increasing every day.
It is already time
to make decisions to ensure more comfortable and quicker assistance in outpatient
clinics, and not only during such serious trials but in normal life. It is
important to adopt an individual approach to treating patients. Modern technology
should simplify the process of making appointments, and issuing conclusions and
prescriptions. It is essential to reduce the waiting time for appointments with
specialised doctors and, of course, rid the medical personnel of paperwork and
endless reports.
The pandemic-related experience shows the importance of post-disease
rehabilitation. Consequently, the President has instructed us to draft and
implement a programme for developing the medical rehabilitation system. This
sphere now requires advanced approaches. Under the relevant initiative, it is
necessary to create a modern infrastructure for this, so that patients can
undergo medical rehabilitation at all stages of their treatment. In the next
few years, 60 percent of medical organisations implementing medical
rehabilitation projects will have to be provided with the necessary equipment,
and we will have to train specialists in this field. People should really be
able to afford this treatment.
The development of medical science will provide the healthcare system with
additional capabilities and new tools. Yet another initiative is aimed at
accomplishing this task.
By pooling the efforts of all participants, including medical education
institutions, scientists and production facilities, we will launch advanced
research and development projects and speed up the introduction of the newest
and most popular treatment methods.
I would like to focus on several other projects in the social sphere.
Under the Professional Education initiative, we will continue to improve
education standards for college students, so that they will meet market demand
to the greatest possible extent. In this way, graduates will be able to find
well-paid jobs more quickly, and enterprises will resolve their HR issues.
In the next two or three years, we will have to set up 210 education and
production clusters in the most in-demand industries. They will bring together
colleges and employers. Each of them will get 100 million roubles’ worth of
federal-budget funding to buy modern teaching equipment and draft new
curricula. We will attract almost 4.5 billion roubles using extra-budgetary
sources.
Everyone is already familiar with another initiative called the Pushkin
Card that the Government introduced last year at the President’s instruction.
Young people aged between 14 and 22 will be able to use this card to buy
tickets for exhibitions, performances and concerts. From 1 February, it will be
possible to buy tickets for Russian films using this card.
At the same time, we are providing favourable circumstances for people to
be able to unlock their own creative potential. Under the Conceived in Russia
initiative, we are establishing a system to support the creative sector; the
system helps generate ideas, create products that are in high demand, and sell
them on international markets.
The initiative should spur the development of the creative industries
sector, which is developing rapidly all over the world.
Ms Golikova (addressing Tatyana
Golikova), you oversee all these eight initiatives. Please tell us more
about specific results and future steps.
Tatyana Golikova: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.
The Government’s social initiatives are aimed at achieving
benchmarks of four of the country’s national development goals, specifically,
Protecting the Population, Health and Well-Being; Self-Realisation and Talent
Development; Honourable and Effective Labour and Successful Entrepreneurship,
and Digital Transformation.
It is the individual who is in the focus of each of the
initiatives. Regular feedback helps us to promptly adjust our decisions.
The world has been living with the pandemic for two
years. For many decades, humanity has not seen such a lasting health hazard that
causes deaths, economic loss and sometimes forces us to make decisions with no
alternative. Learning from this experience, we have developed and approved a federal
project called Sanitary Shield to protect public health and fend off
infections.
The project is to create an effective barrier against epidemics
on three frontiers: inside the country, in our connections with neighbours and countries
further abroad. People get fast, accessible and quality diagnostics, comfortable
sanitary control at the border, and opportunities to live, study, work and
travel without restrictions.
In 2021, we developed seven tests for one-hour diagnostics
of five infections. Four of these tests are already in mass production, while two
more are about to reach the production stage. We provided for the operation of
14 sequencing centres and supplied equipment to eight new centres. We developed
the first national digital platform for data sequencing. We reinforced 15 PCR centres,
doubling lab capacity, which reduced testing times and ensured that test results
are uploaded quicker to the Gosuslugi public services website (a feature used by
24 million). We developed operation guidelines for various industries during
the pandemic.
We will continue this work in 2022 and expand the network
for researching dangerous infections in other regions of the world, for the
purpose of better and faster prognosis. We will build four platforms for the accelerated
development of safe and effective vaccines against new infections.
By 2024, 80 percent of the population will have access to
tests that can be ready within 24 hours. We will implement rapid tests for 43 infections,
thus providing faster medical care.
To be continued.
