Current issue #28, 2015

At Kalashnikov’s gunpoint

State Duma’s Committee for Public Health out of humor with Rospotrebnadzor

According to State Duma’s Committee for Public Health Chairman Sergey Kalashnikov, the agency’s representatives hope to make alterations to the state regulation principles regarding the dietary supplement market. In early September, Mr. Kalashnikov sent Vice-Premier Olga Golodets a letter advising the government to transfer the control functions for the supplement market from the Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) to the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare and Social Development (Roszdravnadzor). In his view, the current situation in the dietary supplement sales sphere indicates that Rospotrebnadzor fails to fulfill its responsibilities efficiently.

[PharmVestnik # 28, 15/09/2015, p. 1, cont’d p. 2]

“Innocent victims”

On the eve of All-Russia People’s Front forum, experts analyzed causes of growing mortality in Russia

Prior to the All-Russia People’s Front (ARPF) forum convened on September 4, the Russian Information Agency AMI held a roundtable discussion titled “Mortality in the Russian Federation: ratio of medical and nonmedical factors” on the initiative of the demographer community. According to Igor Lanskoy, the Russian Health Minister’s Counselor for Communications and one of the roundtable moderators, the mortality growth topic has come to the fore all of a sudden and “slightly illogically”. The agenda announced the participation of demographic experts; however, they were not the only speakers. At the end, the roundtable participants decided to submit to the government a document summing up the actions to decrease mortality in Russia.

[PharmVestnik # 28, 15/09/2015, p. 3]

Tangential wound

All-Russia People’s Front failed to abolish healthcare reforms

The All-Russia People’s Front (ARPF) forum with the participation of the President of the Russian Federation has carried its work to completion. A few weeks prior to its start, it was rumored that the ARPF report regarding the healthcare state would put a final point on this industry modernization. A no joking battle had been expected between the reform supporters and opponents. However, it looked like all have “burned out” prior to...