post-bg-138
calendary December 1, 2016

2nd international conference on development of palliative care for adults and children

Roszdravnadzor’s head Mikhail Murashko took part in the 2nd International Conference on Development of Palliative Care for Adults and Children held in Moscow from 29 November to 1 December 2016.

In his report he noted that the situation in the country in general changed for the better: the number of medical organizations providing palliative care in the regions grew; doctors prescribed painkillers both at the initial attendance and when visiting patients at home; if necessary, patients also got prescriptions when they were discharged from hospital; advanced pain control pharmaceutical forms, in particular, transdermal systems, were available in all regions; complaints for low quality of and delays in pain relief fell down by 1,4 times; the number of palliative care medical organizations increased by 50% (as compared against 2015).

“Palliative care is a set of medical interventions aimed at release from pain, while pain relief is a legally established right of the patient”, noted Mikhail Murashko in his address to the conference. “At the same time, Roszravnadzor’s inspections and information received on the Service’s hotline provide evidence of some violations of this civil right in certain subjects of the Russian Federation”.

The problems of availability of narcotic analgesics can be resolved only in active cooperation with executive authorities.  In this connection, at the beginning of this autumn Roszravnadzor instructed heads of executive authorities to draw up, within the shortest possible time, lists of pharmacies, medical organizations and structural subdivisions thereof requiring licenses for dispensing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to individuals; to analyze all forms and procedures of provision of narcotic preparations to all those in need thereof in the region, especially in hard-to-reach locations (mobile medical teams, social workers, volunteers, etc.); to draw up a schedule and a road map for increasing the number of points of dispensing of narcotic medicinal preparations in separate structural subdivisions of medical organizations located in rural, hard-to-reach and low-populated areas.

Roszravnadzor also instructed heads of healthcare governmental authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation to organize in their regions keeping record of persons in need of prescription of narcotic medicinal preparations due to medical reasons and those receiving such preparations.

Setting up and keeping such records will ensure rights of individuals to pain alleviation, provision of reliable information for calculation of requirements for narcotic analgesics, and higher availability and efficiency of prescription of these preparations for patients.

“A patient with a serious disease should not suffer from an intolerable pain,” Mikhail Murashko underlined in conclusion. “A human being comes to this life beautifully and should leave with dignity, without physical suffering, and Roszravnadzor as a surveillance authority will make every effort to ensure these legitimate rights”.

References:
  1. http://www.roszdravnadzor.ru/news/5261

More related posts

new-img-1

Control

Fine for spa resort in Yessentuki

Roszdravnadzor has imposed a fine of 130 thousand rubles on a spa resort in Yessentuki for improper storage of medical products…

03.03.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-2

Roszdravnadzor

Roszdravnadzor – patients’ rights

In 2015, Roszdravnadzor restored the rights of more than 460 thousand citizens to effective, accessible, and safe medical…

03.03.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-3

Regulation

The certification scheme for medical products hasn’t changed recently

Roszdravnadzor informs that the certification scheme for products in the Russian Federation is determined by Decree of the…

03.04.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-4

Control

Fines – Rostov region

In one and a half months of 2016, the Local Agency of Roszdravnadzor in Rostov Region imposed fines of the total amount of…

03.10.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-5

Control

Unregistered medical products

Two citizens were fined for selling unregistered medicinal products on the Internet in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

03.10.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-6

Control

Unscheduled inspection by roszdravnadzor

Roszdravnadzor started an unscheduled inspection of the Federal State-Funded Institution of Sverdlovsk Region Kirovgrad Central…

03.14.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-7

Medical Devices

International medical device regulators forum (IMDRF)

The delegation of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare headed by Mikhail Murashko, Head of Roszdravnadzor,…

03.17.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-8

Pharmaceuticals

Roszdravnadzor has suspended a series of the preparation “Paratsetomol-UBF”

Roszdravnadzor has suspended a series of the preparation “Paratsetomol-UBF” in which pills the metal wire was found.

05.18.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-9

Roszdravnadzor

Medical equipment stands idle in the Pskov region

Roszdravnadzor (RZN) statement: the expensive medical equipment for the total amount of 342 million rubles stands idle in…

05.19.2016
READ ARTICLE
new-img-10

Control

Hospital control Jewish autonomous region

Roszdravnadzor has audited the activity of the Regional Budgetary Public Health Facility “Central district hospital of Lenin”…

05.20.2016
READ ARTICLE