Putin called the Russian health care system flexible and mobilization

the Readiness for such events as a pandemic, is the result of systematic work of the previous decades, and the Russian healthcare system has proven to be a flexible and mobilization, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Paul Zarubino, the author of the program “Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin” on TV channel “Russia 1”.

“in Advance to be ready for such events can only be the result of systematic work of previous years. Not even years, but decades. It depends on the healthcare system itself,” — said the head of state.

“Despite our conversion, the feasibility of which often have been in doubt, after all you saved was important. Our system — can we agree not to agree, but it is a fact that happened — was flexible and mobilization”, — he stressed.

Russian experts, “a very good training.” “We know we’re always talking about that that narrow experts do not suffice, you need to raise the level of medical training. But overall, it turned out that our country meets the challenges faced by the whole world”, — said the President.

However, this does not mean that no other problems, work on improving the situation in primary care will continue.

“We have sent a lot of resources for fighting the epidemic. Created a lot of additional places, even built a new clinic. That is designed specifically to combat the coronavirus, even created on a temporary basis, I recommended to many of our colleagues in the regions to save,” — said Putin.