Amazing. In Moscow, 7,000 medical workers and 28 healthcare facilities, including 15 hospitals, are being cut. This is being done to fulfill Putin’s infamous “May decrees” (a set of presidential policy directives issued in May 2012).
At the same time, “there are cases where a hospital is being shut down for alleged inefficiency even though there is a waiting list for admission.”
Deputy Mayor Pechatnikov, who oversees healthcare, commented to Vedomosti as follows: “We didn’t want to publish this because we were quietly crying in our offices.”
How interesting. Quietly crying, yet still carrying it out—lengthening hospital waiting lists and making access to medical care harder for Muscovites.
Leonid Mikhalych, don’t cry quietly. You’re a public official—you’re supposed to help the people, not blindly carry out stupid orders.
Just say it plainly: Russia’s incompetent leadership first bloats military and law-enforcement budgets while cutting investment in human capital (healthcare and education), and then issues decrees that we are unable to carry out.
Surely someone has to say this out loud to our naked king.
Otherwise, the quiet crying of an official turns into the quiet crying of the people whose local hospital—one that had been operating for 80 years—is being shut down.
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