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A Modern Public Health Crisis: A Physician Speaks about Healthcare in Post-Glasnost Russia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 1999
Abstract
I work at a large urban medical center. Our hospital has over 1,200 beds and was built in 1805 to take care of the poor. Our patients are still poor, but now so are the hospital and the doctors. Russian doctors are paid about one-third of what truck drivers are paid. The government historically allocates no more than 3% of the budget to medicine because this is not a means of production, like manufacturing.
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