Minister of Health: the money for doctors not stolen, but "frozen"

Russian Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova said that some of the money allocated for the payment of additional medical staff in the regions, not stolen, and frozen in the accounts.

"I think that these residues is as though the accounts. They looted and frozen" - Skvortsov said in an interview with the program "Vesti on Saturday with Sergei Brilev" on the TV channel "Russia 1".

According to the minister, in a number of regions in the Central, Volga and North Caucasus federal district up to one-third of the wage bill in the hospitals were allocated "to the administrative resource." "And the amount of money that went to the usual doctors and nurses, is very small" - Quoted by Skvortsov, "Interfax".

May 7 President Vladimir Putin criticized the mechanism of surcharges primary health care workers and "first aid".

"I ask you to remember what I said. I said - do not pay, will falter. No, they said, would pay, we have them" paint the. "Fuzz? Who needs a paint?" Where's the money, zing ", remember the wonderful words of Vladimir Vysotsky" , - Putin said at a meeting with members of the government, dedicated to the implementation of presidential decrees a year ago.