"Covid" again seriously adjusts the budget of St. Petersburg

The HEALTH Committee of St. Petersburg will receive additional funds from the budget in the amount of 9.2 billion rubles by the end of the year. for various items of expenditure. The money will be allocated as part of the budget adjustment for 2021, follows from the draft resolution on changing the city budget, published on the Smolny website.

As follows from the document, the largest part of the allocated funds is 4.5 billion rubles. - will be sent to the budget of the territorial fund for compulsory medical insurance for the provision of medical care, including those with CORONAVIRUS. In addition, 1.8 billion rubles. will be directed to the implementation of the regional program for the modernization of primary health care; more than 1 billion rubles will go to the budget of the territorial CHI fund for the implementation of the basic CHI program; slightly less than a billion for medicines to treat patients with covid-19 on an outpatient basis; RUB 341 million - to pay vacations for medical workers.

As follows from the certificate of the Komzdrav on the progress of budget execution, in total, 106 billion rubles were allocated to the committee in 2021. During the adoption of the current year's budget, some deputies of the Legislative Assembly argued that this money is not enough for all the expenses of the committee. According to the calculations of the deputy Oksana Dmitrieva (“Party of Growth”), in 2021 St. Petersburg reduced funding for city healthcare by 17 billion rubles. comparing with the previous year. According to the parliamentarian Boris Vishnevsky from Yabloko, the Komzdrav at the time of the adoption of the budget lacked 8 billion rubles. to provide beneficiaries with free medicines. “The fact that this money is needed was twice reported by officials of the Komzdrav during the “zero” readings of the budget. Without this money, beneficiaries will be left without medicines by mid-2021,” he said.

As for other budget adjustments, then, as follows from the document, about 12 billion rubles. is allocated to the housing committee, the bulk of the amount will go to subsidies to heat supply organizations to compensate for lost income. RUB 12.5 billion will additionally receive the committee of property relations of St. Petersburg. At the same time, the expenses of the investment committee will be reduced by 5 billion rubles. 164 million rubles will be taken from the Improvement Committee; Basically, funding is reduced under the item of expenses for the restoration of green spaces in ZNOPs.