Centers for Industrial Medicine

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2024: FMBA allocated 2.17 billion rubles for the creation of medical posts at enterprises

The Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) allocates 2.17 billion rubles for the creation of centers of industrial medicine in Russia. The head of the department, Veronika Skvortsova, announced this in January 2024.

Financing for the creation of a new system of industrial medicine is carried out from various sources, including funds from medical organizations of the FMBA of Russia, industrial enterprises, budgets of all levels, she said in a conversation with TASS.

FMBA allocates 2.17 billion rubles for the creation of centers of industrial medicine in Russia

According to Skvortsova, the cost of creating centers of industrial medicine in Russia by the end of 2024 will be record. It is expected that such objects will work in, To Moscow,, St. Petersburg,, Tver,, Moscow,, and Murmansk Leningrad Samara Penza Sverdlovsk Tyumen areas,, Tomsk and, as well as in Krasnoyarsk Zabaykalsk , and Stavropol Territory. Udmurtia To the Crimea Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug In total, centers will be opened in more than 20 cities of the Russian Federation. According to the FMBA, by mid-January 2024, there are 16 industrial medicine centers in the country.

In total, until January 2027, FMBA plans to open 48 centers of industrial medicine and 38 "digital" health centers at strategic enterprises, including nuclear facilities, in cities of presence. At the stage of announcing the launch of a system of such medical organizations, in May 2023, Veronika Skvortsova said that the department intends to create more than 60 centers and over 100 health centers in all federal districts of Russia, but the head of the agency did not name the timing of the project.

The Center for Industrial Medicine is a new model for providing primary care to employees of enterprises. Within the framework of such centers, employees receive pre-trip, post-trip, pre-shift or post-shift inspection. An employee of the enterprise can, within the framework of the production process, while at his workplace, receive medical assistance.^[1]

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