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Education
Konstantin Skorupsky in 1999 graduated from the Crimean State Medical University named after S.I. Georgievsky in Simferopol. In 2008, he completed his studies at the Odessa Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.
Career
2016
In 2016, he received the position of chief physician of the Sudak City Hospital. Prior to that, Skorupsky worked for a long time in the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor in Feodosia and Sudak, including the position of head of the territorial department.
2021: Appointment as Head of the Ministry of Health of Crimea
On October 22, 2021, it was announced that Konstantin Skorupsky was appointed the new head of the Crimean Ministry of Health. The corresponding decree was signed by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic Yuri Gotsanyuk.
By October 2021, Konstantin Skorupsky is a deputy of the local city council in Crimea. The Honored Doctor of the Republic is 47 years old.
The former Minister of Health of the Republic of Crimea was Alexander Ostapenko, he resigned in September 2021. He headed the department for a little less than a year, but managed to attract the attention of the prosecutor's office for the delay in receiving funds from incentive payments for working with COVID-19 in medical institutions in the region. It is assumed that it was precisely because of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic in Crimea that Ostapenko was fired.
Immediately after the resignation of Alexander Ostapenko, Konstantin Skorupsky became Acting Minister of Health. Sergei Aksenov noted that they plan to submit his candidacy for approval to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. However, on October 1, 2021, Olga Rastrigina took the chair of the acting head of the department, and Konstantin Skorupsky was appointed First Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Crimea. On October 22, 2021, a decree appointing the acting head of the Crimean Ministry of Health Rastrigina was declared invalid.[1]
2022: Service check for failure to meet the deadlines for the implementation of national projects
In April 2022, the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, initiated an internal audit against the Minister of Health Konstantin Skorupsky for disrupting the timing of national projects.
In addition to Konstantin Skorupsky, a number of government ministers Crimea received penalties for this. At the same time, Sergei Aksenov did not give any details about the disrupted projects. In April 2022, Konstantin Skorupsky noted that state, national and regional programs are being comprehensively implemented in Crimea. Within their framework, 60 facilities were built in 2021, 163 capital repairs were carried out, 105 measures were taken to purchase equipment and medical devices (over 1,500 units), 186 ambulances were purchased.
{{quote 'A decision was made to declare penalties in connection with the failure to take appropriate measures to conclude state and municipal contracts in the field of improvement, the implementation of infrastructure projects and national projects within the deadlines established by the instruction of the head of the Republic of Crimea, - wrote Aksenov on his page on the social network "VKontakte." }} In addition, in 2021, 49 major repairs were completed, 111 cars were purchased for district and city hospitals, 55 pieces of equipment were purchased. At the same time, by April 2022, 7 regional projects of the national project "Health" are operating in the republic. In 2021, 166 units of medical equipment, including expensive ones, were purchased under the national project. Also, 1,465 units of computer equipment were purchased and installed in 56 medical organizations, Konstantin Skorupsky said.
According to him, in 2021, as part of measures aimed at treating, diagnosing and preventing the coronavirus COVID-19, 601 oxygen concentrators, 10 artificial lung ventilation devices with invasive ventilation were purchased and delivered.[2]
2024: Resigning
Crimean Health Minister Konstantin Skorupsky resigned due to unresolved problems with the supply of drugs in the region. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, announced the dismissal of the minister through his Telegram channel, stressing that the decision was made in connection with the violation of obligations to provide the population with medicines.
I decided to satisfy the letter of resignation of the Minister of Health, - wrote Aksenov. - Yesterday Konstantin Viktorovich did the right thing and reported that he didn't finalize the situation. Male and fair decision, there will be no other. |
I offer my sincere apologies to the Crimeans for disrupting the delivery of drugs that were necessary at the beginning of the year. If the obligations to purchase drugs are not fulfilled, then he is ready to resign as Minister of Health of Crimea, he promised. |
The head of the Ministry of Health of Crimea has repeatedly received reprimands from the governor. The last time Skorupsky was accused of incomplete use of budget funds in 2023. In May 2023, the governor again reprimanded him "due to problems" in municipalities, the specific details of which were not specified.
Skorupsky has served as Minister of Health since October 2021. Previously, he worked in the territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor in Feodosia and Sudak, and was also the head physician of the Sudak city hospital. His predecessor, Alexander Ostapenko, also left his post in September 2021, having worked for less than a year and becoming the object of attention of the prosecutor's office for delaying incentive payments for working with COVID-19 in medical institutions in the region.
At the beginning of the year, in connection with the violation of the supply of drugs for preferential categories of citizens - primarily for patients with cancer and diabetes mellitus - Governor Sergei Aksenov received numerous complaints. The Crimean Ministry of Health explained that the delays were caused by the procurement process, but the situation with the provision of medicines was never stabilized.
At the central pharmacy warehouse "Crimea-Pharmacy" continues to take a large number of drugs, which, according to Skorupsky, may take some time. Nine names of drugs remain in "persistent defectur," and 33 - "in temporary." Patients in need of these drugs are advised to contact their doctors for the prescription of analogues.[3]