Endocrinology

2023: Russia lacks 2 thousand endocrinologists - Ministry of Health

According to the Ministry of Health of Russia, by May 2023, the country lacks more than 2 thousand endocrinologists. In particular, the shortage of specialists for the adult population is about 1.5 thousand doctors, for children - about 600 people.

As the director of the National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology of the Mizdrava of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Mokrysheva, said, by May 2023, there are not enough endocrinologists in the primary health care in 55 regions, the deficit is estimated at 1,000 rates.

According to the data, by Rosstat the beginning of 2023 Russia , about 6.5 thousand endocrinologists worked in, providing outpatient and inpatient medical care to the adult population in profile.

According to Mokrysheva, one of the reasons for the shortage is the redistribution of personnel between the public and private branches of medicine in favor of the latter, especially among young specialists. In addition, in some regions there is an imbalance in the remuneration of therapists and so-called narrow specialists. This provokes the outflow of doctors from the endocrinological service, Mokrysheva noted.

The National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology, with reference to the assessment of the deputy director of the medical institution and the director of the Institute of Higher and Additional Professional Education, Doctor of Medical Sciences Ekaterina Pigarova, told RBC that the shortage of endocrinologists, according to official statistics, is more about the outpatient level. Pigarova cites Rosstat data, according to which the total number of unoccupied rates for specialists in the field of endocrinology by the beginning of 2023 was 16.7%.

The figure is not catastrophic, but in a number of regions of our country, as practice shows, the existing staff of doctors does not adequately provide the population with the need for endocrinological care, especially given the ongoing increase in the incidence of endocrinopathies, in particular diabetes mellitus, obesity, neoplasms of the thyroid and parathyroid glands, she stressed.[1]

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