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Russia is a country of paperwork, a country
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of bureaucracy and endless paper
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red tape, and my program is about
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wanting to save doctor Alexei
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Levitan from this nightmare. Alexei loves
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his job, but he simply has no time
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to actually do it, and that is bad for all of us.
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My name is Alexei, and I work in one
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of the municipal hospitals in Orenburg
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During a 24-hour shift, we see
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around 120 people. For each of them,
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you have to fill out at least three logbooks
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of records, plus maintain a medical history, plus
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obtain informed consent,
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informed consent for the processing of
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personal data.
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All these papers have to be completed, filed, and
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sent along with the patient. Formally,
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we cannot begin providing
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care to a patient without filling out all these
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forms, and that creates a situation in which
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60 percent of working time has to be
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devoted to paperwork, and only 40 percent
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to the patient and their health. I love my
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job—how can I put it less pompously?—about
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being useful to people.
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What is really great is when you
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see the result of your work, that
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a person was feeling absolutely awful,
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and that after your intervention they became
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well, that they say thank you, thank you
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for doing this and that.
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That is why I love my job, and I do not
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want to leave it, despite the low
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salary.
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Doctors, teachers, police officers, civil servants—
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people in these professions spend more than half
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of their working time
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preparing useless documentation and
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reports that no one will even
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read. Just ask any doctor or teacher
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you know, and they will
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start telling you with great indignation
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how much time they spend on
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paperwork nobody needs.
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For example, today, to keep a hospital
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running, it is necessary to fill out
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more than 200 logbooks, including nursing ones,
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and the need to fill out many forms
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is dictated by requirements that have not been
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reviewed
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since the 1980s. All of this eats up
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the doctor's time, when the patient needs it.
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I will put an end to meaningless bureaucracy. We
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live in the 21st century and can finally
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get rid of these endless
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reports, logbooks, files, curricula,
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lesson plans, and educational work plans.
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I will become president and conduct a review
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of all paperwork. I will introduce the most
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advanced rules used in developed
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countries. I promise that I will leave no more
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than 10 percent of the reporting requirements,
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which is entirely sufficient given modern
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technology. This is Alexei Navalny's program
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in the presidential election, and it
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comes from real life, because it
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is needed by Alexei Levitan and hundreds of thousands
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like him. I want to win
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in order to help them.