Krasnoyarsk, 25 January, correspondent Boris Ivanov: Russian doctors
are predicting that a twofold increase of death rates over birth rates
is going to continue in Russia until 2015, Gennadiy Onishenko, first deputy
Health Minister told RIA at a Russian medical association plenary meeting
in Krasnoyarsk.
Qualified specialists from Siberia and Far East came to attend the plenary
meeting. Participants noted that a demographic situation close to normal
exists in Evenkia [Evenki Autonomous Area], in the Republic of Buryatia,
in Taymyr [Autonomous Area] and at Altay Territory. Fast growing death
rates are observed in other territories.
Doctors think that heart and cancer diseases are the main cause, besides
injuries and alcoholic poisoning were the cause of more than 30,000 deaths
in Russia in 2001.
The reduction of the death rate in Russia should become the first priority
for
the Russian health system, stressed Onishenko. Positive results could
be achieved only by the creation of a corporate structure among doctors.
More than six m doctors, scientists, nurses and chemists from the Russian
medical union are called on to fulfil the task. The constituent assembly
of the Russian medical union is planning its first meeting in the
middle of February 2002.