Agenda: Support for housing construction, action plan to implement the Strategy for Healthcare Development until 2030.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Good morning, colleagues.
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Tatyana Golikova at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Today, we will begin our meeting with the issue of supporting housing construction, particularly in small towns. This sector remains a constant priority for the Government, as it is essential to the country’s spatial development and to creating a comfortable living environment. It also supports a wide range of related industries.
The President has emphasised the need to establish a systematic approach to ensuring that developers fulfil their obligations. Last year, we supported the construction of over 500,000 square metres of residential housing in towns with the population of up to 100,000 and in rural areas across more than 20 Russian regions.
Acting on the President’s instruction, we allocated more than 250 million roubles to subsidise interest payment on loans issued to construction companies.
We are continuing this programme. Today, we will allocate an additional 300 million roubles. Thanks to this concessional financing, thousands of families across the country will be able to move into new homes.
Now I would like to turn to assistance for residents of the border regions.
The President attaches particular importance to restoring housing and social and transport infrastructure facilities, providing compensation for lost property, and supporting displaced residents who have been forced to leave their homes.
The Government is pursuing a systemic approach across all these areas. On the President’s instruction, a comprehensive programme for the recovery and development of the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions is being implemented. It covers roads, power grids, public utility infrastructure, hospitals and schools, and is aimed at creating the conditions necessary for people to live and work.
We are also continuing targeted assistance. An additional 3 billion roubles will be allocated to the Kursk and Belgorod regions. The funds will be used to compensate residents whose homes have been destroyed for the cost of renting accommodation and to help them purchase a new home or build a new house.
Let us move on to another issue.
The Government has approved an action plan for implementing the Strategy for Healthcare Development, which was approved by the President.
The document is closely aligned with the targets set out in the relevant state programme and national projects. This ensures a comprehensive approach to improving the accessibility and quality of healthcare for people of all ages.
The plan provides for further modernisation of healthcare infrastructure and the development of advanced medicines. Work is also continuing to introduce modern methods and approaches into medical practice and expand the use of high-tech and specialised medical care.
Particular attention in preparing this roadmap was paid to combating socially significant diseases and developing a healthcare system focused on healthy longevity.
I would like to ask Tatyana Golikova to tell us how the strategy will be implemented.
Tatyana Golikova at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on current issues
Tatyana Golikova: Mr Mishustin, colleagues,
The action plan for implementing the Strategy for Healthcare Development , approved by the President at the end of last year, is aimed at preserving the population and strengthening public health as a key national goal, increasing life expectancy and, above all, healthy life expectancy.
I will briefly focus on the main areas covered by the plan.
The first area concerns measures to combat disease risk factors, including encouraging people to adopt healthy lifestyles, particularly young people and the working-age population.
This year, we began creating a new healthcare model. We are transforming existing health centres into healthy longevity medical centres. This transition is included in the programme of state guarantees for 2026 and the planning period, with 2026 designated as a transition year.
Since healthcare extends beyond the provision of medical services alone, our efforts are also focused on important measures such as introducing healthy and personalised nutrition, including adding information on sugar, salt and trans-fatty acid content to food labels. Other measures include developing sports infrastructure and integrating healthcare, culture and the arts in order to support cognitive health, as well as a range of initiatives covering other areas.
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