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2020: Resignation from a position of the Minister of Health of the Arkhangelsk region
On October 29, 2020 it was announced resignation of the Minister of Health of the Arkhangelsk region Anton Karpunov around whom scandal with surcharges to the doctors working with COVID - positive patients burst earlier.
However in the press service of the government of the Arkhangelsk region specified that the position of the Minister of Health in the region is liquidated. Instead of it in structure of the regional government the Deputy Prime Minister's chair — the Minister of Health will appear. The one who will hold this post will supervise including work of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. By October 29, 2020 his candidacy is agreed with the Russian Ministry of Health.
Anton Karpunov will continue work in the government of the region as the adviser to the governor so far. By October 29 it is in a business trip in Kotlas where the interdepartmental group on interaction of the structures involved in fight against spread of a coronavirus in the south of the area is created. Anton Karpunov headed the regional Ministry of Health in February, 2016.
Earlier Karpunov declared canceling of surcharges to the doctors working with patients with COVID-19 notes the local edition "Severa Ekho". According to him, risks for doctors are at the moment reduced.
Payments for risks at us are cancelled since October in view of the fact that actions which proved these risks are executed and minimized — he said. |
It was talked of regional surcharges which, in addition to federal, were received by the physicians working with COVID-19, the amount from 16 to 32 thousand rubles varied.
In the Arkhangelsk region since the beginning of a pandemic recorded more than 19 thousand infections with a coronavirus. At the end of September 1800 cases of infection of COVID-19 at physicians of the region are registered. The daily gain for October 29, 2020 made 319 diseased.[1]