Russian minister wants to double healthcare funding

摘要

Russia's health minister Mikhail Zurabov says state funding of the national healthcare system should be raised from the current 3.5% of GDP to 4-5%. However, it can only be done by raising taxes, to which his fellow ministers are unlikely to agree.The Russian government has drafted next year's federal budget, with plans to raise healthcare expenditure to 3.8% of GDP, according to Oksana Dmitrieva, a member of the parliamentary budget committee, But the actual share may be slightly higher because some healthcare expenditure has been included in other sections of the budget, she said.