Lukashenko demands to actively introduce experience of high-tech healthcare in regions
The President of Belarus ordered this during his visit to the Minsk Scientific and Practical Centre for Surgery, Transplantology and Haematology. During the report on the centre’s work, its Director Oleg Rummo informed the Head of State that, last year, the centre earned more than $10m which accounts for over 70 percent of the export of medical services of the city of Minsk and 25 percent of the country’s export. The number of patients coming for treatment from other countries has exceeded 2,000.
“This is the main indicator of your success,” noted Aleksandr Lukashenko. “If people from such medically developed countries as Israel and other states came to you, then you have been recognised. So, you’re good at your job.”
At the same time, the President underlined that we should not be ashamed that we have learned to earn money by providing medical services, “The whole world earns money on healthcare. But we – being good-natured people, being Slavs – view as inconvenient for us to make money on health. However, the question is not even in earnings, but in the fact that our people do not take this money to Germany or somewhere else. Therefore, these operations, surgeries and other high-tech things must be done here. This is the point of my support and the support of the state as a whole.”
Addressing Oleg Rummo, Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to another important point, “The second thing I need from you: it is necessary to teach people how to work in regional and district centres (there will be different surgeries: high-tech, lower-tech, if I may say so).”
The Head of State particularly asked the highly-qualified specialists ‘not to be greedy and pass on their experience to young people, so that we have more and more of them’.
“I always say: it is important that those people who come after us are better than us. Otherwise, we aren’t worth our salt,” replied Oleg Rummo.
