The Ministry of Finance proposed to reduce the growth rate of doctors' salaries

The State Duma Committee on the Budget and Taxes proposed to reduce the growth rate of the salary of healthcare workers in the regions. According to TASS, this is stated in the design of the compulsory medical insurance fund for the second reading of the budget of the 2017 and planning period of 2018-2019.

As follows from the amendments, it is proposed to reduce the growth rate of salaries almost double - from 10.6 percent to 5.4 percent.

“It's not about a decrease (wage level. - Ed.), At this stage we propose to stop the growth rate of 5.4 percent,” said Tatyana Nesterenko, First Deputy Minister of Finance. According to her, the initiative is due to the fact that the regions will have difficulty financing the planned salaries planned now, since the funds for co -financing on such a scale were not laid down in regional budgets.

The funds stipulated in the budget for the implementation of the previously planned standard of 10.6 percent, the Ministry of Finance proposes to redirect the creation of a reserve within the MHIF itself, which can further be allocated for the same purposes.

According to Nesterenko, the proposal of the Ministry of Finance has not yet been discussed with representatives of the regions.

In addition, during the discussion of amendments to the second reading, the committee decided to maintain a contribution rate of 5.1 percent in the budget for 2019, and not increase to 5.9 percent, as the Ministry of Finance previously proposed. This information was confirmed by the head of the State Duma committee on budget and taxes Andrei Makarov.

Later, on Tuesday, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the government has not yet a common decision regarding a decrease in the growth rate of salaries of doctors.

“This is the proposal of one of the departments. You know that, in any case, such proposals are subject to interdepartmental coordination. There is a social block, there is a point of view and the supervising deputy prime minister, and so on, we do not yet know these points of view. That is, any position of the government, the Cabinet of Ministers in this case has not been developed and it was not voiced in any way,” RBC Peskov quotes.

In mid -October, it became known that the budget of the Federal Antimonopoly Service remains non -formed, since it does not have enough funds to fulfill the May decree of Vladimir Putin to increase the salary of health workers. According to Vedomosti, in 2017 a shortage will be about 71 billion rubles. Almost half a trillion rubles are required for an indexation of salaries of health workers, it follows from an explanatory note to the Fomsi budget project: 196.6 billion rubles in 2018 and 219.5 billion rubles in 2019.

The Ministry of Health proposed to find the necessary amount in the budget of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for 2016, without transferring the so -called return transfer to the federal budget. This is 96.7 billion rubles allocated mainly to high -tech medical care.

According to the presidential decree in 2017, the salary of doctors should amount to 180 percent of the average, and medium and junior medical staff - 90 and 80 percent. By 2018, it should amount to 200, 100 and 100 percent, respectively.