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Doctors predict twofold increase of deaths over births
in Russia.
Russian news agency RIA
Krasnoyarsk, 25 January, correspondent Boris Ivanov: Russian doctors are predicting that a twofold increase of death rates over birth rates is going to continue in Russia until 2015, Gennadiy Onishenko, first deputy Health Minister told RIA at a Russian medical association plenary meeting in Krasnoyarsk.
Qualified specialists from Siberia and Far East came to attend the plenary meeting. Participants noted that a demographic situation close to normal exists in Evenkia [Evenki Autonomous Area], in the Republic of Buryatia, in Taymyr [Autonomous Area] and at Altay Territory. Fast growing death rates are observed in other territories.
Doctors think that heart and cancer diseases are the main cause, besides injuries and alcoholic poisoning were the cause of more than 30,000 deaths in Russia in 2001.
The reduction of the death rate in Russia should become the first priority for the Russian health system, stressed Onishenko. Positive results could be achieved only by the creation of a corporate structure among doctors. More than six m doctors, scientists, nurses and chemists from the Russian medical union are called on to fulfil the task. The constituent assembly of the Russian medical union is planning its first meeting in the middle of February 2002.
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