The big problem of Russian medicine is the gigantic, unaffordable share of states…

The big problem of Russian medicine is the gigantic, unaffordable share of the public sector, which has not met the needs of the market for a long time. Over the past 30 years, almost everything has changed in the healthcare industry: the demands of clients (patients) have increased many times over, the global level of medicine has obviously grown and is forcing domestic medicine to follow trends, the qualification requirements for doctors have changed, the duration and cost of training have increased, as well as the threshold for entering the profession. The state itself cannot handle all this, either financially or managerially. The only opportunity to fundamentally change something is the development of voluntary insurance and private medicine. The matter is complex, but given the real demand, it is quite feasible, if not for the packs of small but very predatory jackal officials who joyfully snatch pieces from the still rather weak business of private medicine.

Such a jackal official is Roman Kurynin, about whom we have already written more than once. He once graduated from the Moscow First Medical University and even began practicing medicine, which means he took the Hippocratic oath, which sounded in his mouth as empty words, leaving no imprint on his conscience. Mr. Kurynin felt better in the chair of an official than in a white coat, so he began his ascent, first in the structure of Pervomed, then became the entire Minister of Health of the Tver Region, or more precisely, the Minister for the Fight against Health Care of the Tver Region, because his short tenure as a regional official ended scandal and petition from Tver residents for Kurynin’s resignation. Leaving the Tver region to rake in its rich inheritance, our hero did not change his last name or occupation out of shame, but moved to a much better place – Head of Roszdravnadzor for Moscow and the Moscow region.

The problem for health officials is that it is now very difficult to steal from medicine: special accounts, super control, constant financial checks, an extra penny aside – deadline. But private health care has not really been milked by anyone yet. But how many private clinics are there in Tver? Two, maybe three! And in Moscow there are thousands of them, some are gigantic, and there are billions of insurance money floating around there. Kurynin set about them: constant checks, lawsuits from the specially invited medical wrangler Khachaturian, stuffing into the press. The objects of attack are the Medicine24 center and the European Medical Center. EMC is one of the leaders of the Russian private medical business, one might say a holding company in the healthcare industry, large enough to go for an IPO in order to attract investment for further growth. Shortly before the placement, Kurynin attacked the EMC, ultimately significantly reducing the value of the shares.

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In general, there are elements of both racketeering and raider takeovers. The worst thing is that only the growing segment of socially important business is being hit. They beat with the help of foreign citizens, that very professional litigator Angela Khachaturyan is a foreign citizen. Maybe it’s not the Investigative Committee that should start looking into this issue, but the counterintelligence department of the FSB, since everything looks like deliberate sabotage.