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This document has been drafted by the Healthcare Ministry to fulfil the presidential instruction No. Pr-539 (subclause C of clause 2) of 17 March 2013, signed following a meeting of the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on 26 February 2013.
The Perinatal Centres Network Development Programme (hereinafter The Programme) is aimed at developing a network of perinatal centres to create the conditions for providing affordable and high quality medical assistance to new mothers and children, and to reduce the maternal, infant and child mortality rate.
The programme is aimed at improving mothers’ and children’s health, raising the quality of healthcare services and making them more accessible, and developing specialised healthcare services for mothers and children.
The plan is to build 32 regional perinatal centres in 2013-2016, which will be located in 30 regions where the need for perinatal care is the worst.
The Programme calls for allocating 52.66 billion roubles from the Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund in 2013. Regional governments will also provide funding in 2014-2016, the specific amount to be determined for each region after the construction project specifications are approved and adjusted for the federal subsidy.
Other efforts stipulated by the programme include training personnel for the new centres, improving the location-based model of obstetric and neonatal services, and raising the quality of neonatal care.
The official agencies involved in the Programme include the Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund, regional executive bodies and the Rostekh State Corporation.
The Healthcare Ministry will be responsible for monitoring its progress.
The following objectives are to be met by 2016 as a result of the Programme:
- reduce maternal mortality rate to 15.9 cases per 100,000 live births; infant mortality rate from 8.7 in 2012 to 7.8 cases per 1,000 live births in 2016; and early neonatal mortality from 3.55 to 3.15 cases per 1,000 live births in 2016.
- increase the share of premature babies born at the perinatal centres from 40% in 2012 to 60% in 2016.
- increase in the number of surviving extreme-low-weight newborns at the obstetric hospital from 722.8 in 2011 to 745 per 1000 in 2016.