New Healthcare Minister to focus on high-quality assistance for everyone, work with personnel and informatisation
The Healthcare Ministry has been tasked to continue its work to eliminate the shortcomings identified by the monitoring group in 2023 and to ensure the availability of quality medical care to every person, Aleksandr Khodzhaev, appointed by Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko as Healthcare Minister today, told reporters
According to Aleksandr Khodzhaev, one of the main tasks set by the Head of State for the ministry is to continue working to ensure the availability of quality medical assistance to every person, “One of the main tasks is to ensure that high-quality medical assistance reaches all residents of Belarus, including in rural areas. Quite a lot has been done in this direction, but [this topic] still requires close attention and a deeper approach.”
According to the Minister, informatisation of the healthcare system remains an urgent problem, requiring different approaches to eliminate bureaucratic issues, including in document flow, “In this regard, the IT platform – currently under development – will be a priority, enabling employees to have fewer documents that need to be filled out. Informatisation enables us to use human resources more efficiently.”
Answering a question from journalists about how work with personnel will be structured, including eliminating the shortcomings identified by the monitoring group in 2023, Aleksandr Khodzhaev responded,
“Work [with personnel] requires a systematic approach which is determined not only by the preparation of regulatory documents and orders of the Healthcare Ministry, but also by local executive discipline. In this regard, every head of the department, every chief doctor, head of the general health directorate, chief freelance specialist of the region must have honest, fair, analytical information.”
The Minister is convinced that the training of qualified specialists for the healthcare system should be given attention across all levels, “We must first look at ourselves and ask what we have done in this part or where there is a flaw. Each of us. The Healthcare Ministry, heads of general health directorates, chief doctors, heads of the department and, of course, doctors themselves.”
