Seriously ill children will cease to be treated for free?

Seriously ill children will cease to be treated for free?
On the Internet news portals was reported that Russia ended quota free treatment of high-tech

Today, the Internet news portals was reported that Russia has ended quotas on a free high-tech treatments for critically ill children. Now costly complicated surgery young patients, doctors will make a payment, either in sequence, which can reach 3 - 6 months. Are such fears justified?
- Each year about 53 million children in our country are so-called high-tech medical care (VMP) - said in a recent radio esters   Director of the Department of pediatric care and obstetrics service Health Minister Valentina Shirokova. - As a rule, it is a costly treatment of serious diseases: cancer, cardiology and others.
To free the child received the necessary medical care, health authority of the region where the patient lives, must enter into a special electronic database, enter data on young patients, then get the card to send to a specific clinic and parents pass. All this, of course, free of charge.
With regard to quotas, the Valentine Shirokov explained as follows: the regional health authorities counted how many children in need of VMP every year and an average output figure. This number is specified in the application, that each region sends the Ministry of Health to provide funding for high-tech treatment (such a scheme often referred to as "treatment on a quota").
In 2011, on the basis of applications areas have been allocated for the treatment of complex and expensive 265, 7 thousand people, among them - 51 thousand children. From budget is directed 37, 69 billion. Rubles. However, by mid-August unspent it was only 724 million. Rub., For a total of 19, 3% of the planned volume for the whole year.
Speaking on the radio, Valentin Shirokov acknowledged that "enormous sums allocated by the state, still can not 100% to cover all the needs for treatment." Including the fact that every year there are new diseases, the number of patients may be higher than the figures in the original applications of the regions.

However, the Health Ministry says that need not be left without help: already preparing an order to allocate additional funds for the FMP.
If your child urgently needs an expensive operation, please contact directly to the health authority of the place of residence,   - To advise the Health Ministry.

And if there is no help, Call and write directly to the Ministry of Health   (all phone numbers and coordinates on the official website).

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