The corresponding bill was adopted today, July 18, by the State Duma in the first reading. The project was introduced almost a year and a half ago, in February 2016. The initiators were the parliamentarians of the party of the president Andrei Isaev and Nikolai Gerasimenko. According to the adopted law, for the passage of medical examination for release from work, you can count on a three-year off period. Not more often. At the same time, management is required to retain the position and average salary. "On the day of the prophylactic medical examination, the employee, on a written application, is released from work for a time corresponding to one full working day," reads the text of the document published on the official website of the lower house. While a systematic medical examination is required to pass only certain categories of workers, noted its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
Most of the employed Russians do not have such an opportunity, because employers are reluctant to send them for medical examination. "And citizens are forced to take a day off at their own expense or completely refuse a routine examination," the parliamentarian said, recalling that Russian President Vladimir Putin in May urged the development of a strategy to reduce mortality in the country, including cardiovascular and oncological diseases. "It is timely diagnosis allows you to identify these diseases in the early stages and successfully treat them.
Accepting this bill, the State Duma implements the instructions of the head of state, - said Volodin, adding. - This is directly related to the timeliness of medical care, especially for the elderly. In this connection, the State Duma Health Protection Committee, in preparation for the draft law, is studying an amendment to the law for the second reading, so that citizens of our country of pre-retirement age can receive three additional days off for the prophylactic examination ". The document adopted in the first reading will ensure a more serious approach of our compatriots to a medical examination, says Leonid Ogul, deputy chairman of the State Duma Health Committee. "In time to seek medical help, if cardiovascular diseases or oncology are identified, it means to have a much better chance of healing. Citizens, after they receive a guaranteed free day, will treat the medical examination in all seriousness, "he said.. However, one of the authors of the initiative, Nikolai Gerasimenko, suggested that by the second reading, it will undergo changes that will consist in the number of additional.
As a result, the United Russia is sure, two days off will be allocated for medical examination instead of one. "There are questions: one day is a little.
And this was one of the remarks of the government of the Russian Federation, why they initially gave a negative response, "the MP complained during the plenary session.
On the eve of this issue was discussed with a representative of the Ministry of Health, which, he hopes Gerasimenko, will support this amendment.