MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Moscow’s healthcare system has demonstrated a high potential of resistance to crisis situations according to the data cited by head of an international study on stability of healthcare systems Natalya Kamynina.
The study with the participation of experts of the Research Institute of the Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of Moscow’s Healthcare Department and their colleagues from other countries was conducted under the auspices of the International Economic Forum and was dedicated to seeking the most efficient management and organizational solutions to overcoming the crisis caused by the pandemic of COVID-19. The participants included the London School of Economics and Political Science, the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company, groups of experts from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Great Britain and Vietnam.
"The performed analysis confirmed our theory that the Russian healthcare system, and in particular, the healthcare system of the city of Moscow, have a high potential for stability and resistance to crisis situations," she said at a roundtable on medical technologies.
She explained that among the examples supporting this conclusion are a clear system of subordination and accountability of the healthcare system’s governing bodies, an absence of duplicating functions, an efficient interlevel and interagency communication in order to counteract the crisis, an extensive and multidirectional financial support in case of local and global emergencies (redistributing funds and using reserve funds of the president and the government of the Russian Federation), a steady trend to increase remuneration of labor of healthcare workers.
"If one talks about Moscow, then the success of the Russian capital in the fight against the coronavirus is explained, above all, by the comprehensive approach which allowed Moscow to avoid fatal consequences at the very beginning of the pandemic. Above all, this is a large-scale testing from the very first days of the pandemic - three times as much as, for example, in Germany or Korea. Secondly - the readiness of the healthcare system for such an unpredictable and mass disease as the coronavirus. This means both the large number of inpatient facilities with teams of experienced medics and the possibility of rapid deployment of additional capacities," she noted.