MOSCOW – Military medicine in Russia should be developing within the armed forces system, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
“It is wrong to discuss advantages and disadvantages of including servicemen in the mandatory medical insurance system,” Shoigu said.
“Military medicine is an integral component of the military organization, and it has always been and remains to be the most efficient and advanced element of the national healthcare system,” he said.
“I am convinced that military medicine will continue to develop within the armed forces. This is our firm position,” Shoigu said.
“We should think not about how to bring military medicine to a common standard but, on the contrary, how to raise the public medical system to the level of the military one,” he said.
It was proposed during debates on a draft national budget for 2017 at the State Duma on Thursday that the Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund be enlarged by including all servicemen in the national mandatory medical insurance system and by reducing the number of military medical institutions.
