OREANDA-NEWS. July 19, 2013. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) organized a meeting of its Expert Council for Developing Competition in the Social Sphere and Health Care. The agenda included licensing medical activities due to changed legal and regulatory framework.

Representatives of the Ministry of Health, Roszdravnadzor [the Federal Service on Surveillance in Health Care], Rospotrebnadzor [the Federal Service on Customer’s Rights Protection of Human Well-Being Surveillance], as well as medical organizations and non-governemntal organizations, interested in the issue, attended the meeting.

The Council looked into the problems of licensing medical activities in relation with coming into force the Order of the Ministry of Health “On approving the requirements to organizing and carrying out /rendering the works (services) to provide primary care, specialized (including high-technology), first aid (including first aid specialized), palliative care, providing medical care associated with health resort treatment, medical expert reviews, medical examinations, medical certifications and sanitary-epidemiological and preventive measures as part of medical care, transplanting organs and (or) tissues, circulating donor blood and (or) its components for medical purposes”.

The Expert Council proposed that the Ministry of Health, Roszdravnadzor and Rospotrebnadzor should form an inter-branch working group involving interested federal executive bodies and representatives of FAS Expert Council for Developing Competition in the Social Sphere and Health Care to devise amendments to the legal acts on licensing medical acidities.