Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko delivered a report on the main topic, namely, expanding healthcare infrastructure and primary care modernisation programmes.
Several current issues were reviewed at the beginning of the meeting.
The meeting was attended by Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, deputy prime ministers Tatyana Golikova, Alexander Novak, Dmitry Patrushev, Vitaly Savelyev, Marat Khusnullin, and Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. Other officials invited to the meeting included Presidential Aide Alexei Dyumin, Minister of Labour and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov, Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit, Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities Irek Faizullin, Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, and Head of the Federal Taxation Service Daniil Yegorov.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
Mr Murashko will discuss primary care modernisation programmes and infrastructure expansion in this sphere.
However, let us begin with a critical issue of getting ready for the winter.
Mr Fayzullin, how far have you got?
(Irek Fayzullin reported that, with due account of the outdoor temperatures, heating systems have been turned on in 1,686 municipal districts in 72 regions. In view of the accidents that occurred during last year’s heating period, accident response plans have been drawn up by the Ministry of Energy, the Emergencies Ministry and Rostekhnadzor agency, and emergency drills have been scheduled in each region.
Overall, 6.896 million blocks of flats, or 98.9 percent of housing are ready for winter, as well as 98 percent of public facilities and amenities, and 98.9 percent of utility infrastructure. A total of 160,000 kilometres of heating networks have been made ready. Sufficient fuel reserves have been spotckpiled,, and government support has been provided to the regions where necessary.
According to minister, the government continues working on the comprehensive integration of the newly reunited regions into the country’s economy. They are being included in all countrywide projects, including programmes to modernise utility infrastructure and create a comfortable urban environment, the integrated development of territories programme, and the Housing federal project.
Preparations for the winter are also underway in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, with assistance coming from Russian regions that committed to support certain communities there. The DPR has 97 percent of its systems prepared for the winter, the LPR, 98 percent, the Zaporozhye Region 95 percent, and the Kherson Region, 89 percent.
The minister also reported that preparations for winter in the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions are kept under special review as per the presidential instruction.)
Vladimir Putin: Good. Thank you very much.
The country is vigorously preparing for the winter. I hope that everything will be accomplished. Indeed, it is a major effort on a national scale.
And how did our summer tourist season end?
Mr Chernyshenko.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko: Mr President,
I would like to point out growing interest in traveling around the country. We expect the number of tourist trips to exceed 90 million this year.
The most popular destinations are the Krasnodar Territory, which added 15 percent, and Moscow with 8 percent. Each of these regions was visited by over 3 million tourists. The tourist flow to St Petersburg soared 20 percent compared to last year and almost reached 2.5 million guests. Crimea, despite the temporary restrictions, saw an almost 6 percent growth, receiving 1 million tourists.
To be continued.