Department of Health of the Moscow Region as the central executive body of state power

The Department of Health of the Moscow Region is the central executive body that carries out executive activities in the field of health care in the territory of Moscow and its region, as well as conducts state policy. It also coordinates the activities of other territorial and central executive bodies and carries out sectoral management.

What is the department guided by?

The department is guided by acts of the Moscow Government, laws, statutes and, of course, the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The Ministry can carry out its direct activities both in interaction with various executive authorities and directly on its own. It can carry out in its own name, as well as acquire responsibilities and personal non-property rights. Has personal accounts, an independent balance sheet and has the powers of legal entities.

Main tasks and objectives

The Department of Health of the Moscow Region was established to implement Moscow's policy in the field of public health in the region.

The main tasks are:

• Implementation and development of systems of measures within their competence for health protection, including the provision of medicinal and medical assistance to the population of the region and the organization of preventive measures.
• Observance of freedoms and human rights in the field of health care and state guarantees related to these rights, as well as ensuring the protection of citizens.

Credentials

The Department of Health of the Moscow Region exercises the following powers:

• On the liquidation, reorganization and establishment of public health institutions, as well as educational institutions of the state level of secondary vocational education;
• On the regulation of payment for labor in the field of labor protection, including the determination of the procedure, conditions and amount of the implementation of value payments to various municipal medical institutions at the expense of funds sent from the federal budget for the respective purposes;
• By the definition of the regime of districts and the boundaries of sanitary protection of health resorts and localities of regional importance;
• On the recognition of the territories as a health-improving resort of regional importance.

What are the objectives of the Ministry?

The Department of Health of the Moscow Region sets itself the following tasks:

• Maintain the procedure for providing premises to families with a sick child with a contagious form of tuberculosis;
• Cancel or impose restrictive measures (that is, quarantine) on the territory of Moscow and the region on the basis of instructions and proposals of the chief sanitary state doctor of the Moscow region, as well as his deputies;
• Support investment health projects;
• Financially provide for the promotion, organization and development of blood donation and its components;
• To form the budget expenditures on labor protection in the part of rendering mandatory specialized assistance in oncological, narcological, anti-tuberculosis, skin and venereal dispensaries and other medical organizations of the region.

The Department of Health is also responsible for:

• The draft of the territorial program providing guaranteed necessary free assistance to Russian citizens, which includes compulsory medical insurance for the population;
• The organization of training and retraining of pharmaceutical and medical workers, their certification;
• The provision of medicinal and medical assistance, the development of public health protection;
• The definition of the main directions of health policy in Moscow and the region;
• Preparation of drafts of regulatory, regulatory and legal acts in accordance with the established procedure, including the recognition of these acts and the introduction of necessary changes in them.

Formation of a budgetary application for health care to include expenditures in the draft law

The Moscow City Health Department sets economic and medical standards in accordance with the main federal standards for the provision of mainly medical care. The Ministry licenses activities related to trafficking in psychotropic and narcotic substances and funds, and deals with pharmaceutical and medical activities. It also organizes private and municipal labor protection systems (except for activities related to the provision of medical care, necessarily high-tech).

The official website of the Department of Health is located at the following address: www.mz.mosreg.ru. Here you can find all the necessary information about the activities, structure and activities of the department.