The expert explained the reasons for the shortage of doctors in Russian regions

The shortage of doctors is most pronounced in those regions where the average wage in the economy is lower, MD, MBA in Healthcare Management, Rector of the Higher School of Healthcare Organization and Management (HSE), told Izvestia Guzel Ulumbekova. Among such regions, for example, the Vladimir, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kurgan and Pskov regions.

"The shortage of doctors is most pronounced in those regions where the average wage in the economy is lower. For example, in the Vladimir, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kurgan, and Pskov regions, the availability of doctors is about 30 per 10,000 people, which is a quarter lower than the average in Russia and even lower than in more affluent regions, such as St. Petersburg, where it exceeds 50 per 10,000 people." — Ulumbekova commented.

In Russia as a whole, there are not enough internists and pediatricians, neurologists, ophthalmologists, endocrinologists, oncologists, psychiatrists and narcologists, emergency doctors and intensive care specialists in state clinics, Natalia Gavrilova, chief physician of the Scandinavian Health Center, told Izvestia.

Private clinics lack highly qualified surgeons, "doctors of rare specialties and specialists with a scientific reputation." According to Gavrilova, there is an acute shortage among surgeons, obstetricians and gynecologists, radiologists and doctors of functional diagnostics in the state clinics of the regions.

For more information about the availability of doctors for Russians, see the Izvestia article.

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