Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian government to keep under special control the increased payouts for the leave required for medical staff. During a meeting with medical workers on the eve of the professional holiday, the head of state demanded that “there were no failures”.
Additional payments to the salaries of doctors who struggled with the coronavirus, should be taken into account when calculating holiday pay. Moreover, the health workers had to move their holiday to a later date due to the pandemic. The President noted that this will not be taken into account when during the year specialists will leave. Knowing that it will put additional financial burden on regional budgets, Putin promised to help the Federation.
in Addition, Putin instructed the government to develop mechanisms of privileges and preferences for medical students struggling with coronavirus, while continuing their further study in the specialty. He recalled that during the epidemic COVID-19 and the doctors worked more than 15 thousand students, residents and graduate students who “had a real baptism of fire and passed the test of loyalty to the future of the profession.”
