Kuzbass administration denies loans to hospitals to secure presidential decrees

The administration of Kuzbass denies that the hospitals accountable to it took loans to support their activities due to the implementation of the presidential decree to increase salaries. Officials claim that it was not about commercial loans, but they do not deny the fact of large debts.

The accounts payable of Kuzbass medical institutions reached 1.7 billion rubles, said Elena Malysheva, vice-governor for social policy. Regional authorities decided to merge some of the hospitals, reducing the number of legal entities.

The money earned by hospitals and polyclinics was diverted to salaries. For other expenses, including previously concluded contracts for the supply of medicines, “loans” had to be taken out, Kommersant-Sibir wrote with reference to Alexander Brezhnev, deputy head of the regional health department (the text is available in the Yandex cache ) . Later, the word "loans" in the publication was replaced by "loans".

Taiga.info published a note with a link to Kommersant. Later, the health department told the editors that Brezhnev "did not tell anyone about the fact that hospitals took out loans." “The representative of the department explained the mechanism
formation of accounts payable of healthcare organizations,” the letter says.

“The material contains information that does not correspond to reality,” the administration said. — Deputy head of the Department of Public Health of the Kemerovo Region, Alexander Brezhnev, did not tell the publication that medical organizations took out loans to support their activities. It was about the mechanism for the formation of accounts payable of medical organizations, which is in no way connected with the banking sector.”