The document notes that the National Medical Academy of Ukraine includes 36 state health institutions, including nine in Kharkiv. They employ more than 3,500 people, including nearly 800 scientists (including 480 doctors and candidates of science).

At the same time, state financing in 2017 covers only 35-45% of the required wage fund, and about 20-25% of the need is paid for utilities, Mediaport points out..

The deficit in labor costs with accruals for Kharkov institutes in 2017 is about 180 million hryvnia (for all institutions of the National Academy of Sciences - more than 518.8 million hryvnia).

"In order to prevent further growth of social tensions among medical workers and patients, as well as to prevent the cessation of activity of state institutions of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the Kharkov Regional Council appeals to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a request to amend the Law of Ukraine" On the State Budget For 2017 "with a view to allocating funds to support the activities of branch state institutions of the National Academy of Medical Sciences Auction of Ukraine, "the document says.

Among the nine Kharkiv institutes of the National Academy of Medical Sciences - the Institute of Medical Radiology. Grigorieva, Institute of Pathology of the Spine and Joints. Sitenko, Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology. Mechnikova, Institute for Child and Adolescent Health, Institute for Endocrine Disease Pathology. Danilevsky, Institute of General and Emergency Surgery, National Institute of Therapy. Malaya, Institute of Dermatology and Venereology.

At a meeting of the regional council's profile commission in mid-May, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Health Irina Sisoenko stated that the need for funding from the state budget for the institutes of the Academy in Ukraine is 1 billion 160 million hryvnia.

Heads of institutions argue that, among the problems with wages, "the moral climate is declining".

"When people do not see prospects, at least promises, that the situation will improve, some will go into commercial structures, medical institutions of a different level, trained, literate, knowledgeable people will leave," said the director of the Institute of Pathology of the Spine and Joints. Sitenko Nikolay Korzh.