The fund to help children with serious illnesses, created with funds from the increased personal income tax, will be called “Circle of Good”

President Vladimir Putin announced the readiness of a draft decree on the creation of a fund to help children with serious and rare diseases, which will be called the Circle of Kindness. this He announced at a meeting on social issues.

“I have a draft decree on the creation of a fund to support children with severe and life-threatening chronic diseases, including rare, so-called orphan diseases, on my desk. We decided to call this fund “Circle of Kindness,” Putin said.

It is planned that the fund will receive funds by raising the tax rate on personal income from 13% to 15% for those incomes that exceed 5 million rubles a year. President Vladimir Putin The corresponding decree was signed by in November.

As RBC reported , the Ministry of Health proposed to include representatives of various religious denominations, the main freelance specialists of the ministry, as well as representatives of patient communities and foundations in the expert council of the fund for children with rare diseases.

The board of trustees will presumably control the work of the foundation, approve its program and assess its implementation. The exact distribution of powers will become known after the publication of the presidential decree.