Dmitry Medvedev met with medical personnel during a visit to the Djanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine and also visited the institute’s emergency cardiology department.

Subjects discussed at the meeting included healthcare development, social protection for medical workers, and raising the standards of medical services provided, including in emergency medicine facilities. 

Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the Commission for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on developing school education.

The meeting, chaired by the President, focused particularly on improving the draft law on protecting public health.

Dmitry Medvedev presented decorations and certificates conferring honorary titles to 29 medical workers from healthcare sector organisations from around Russia.

Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of instructions issued following a May 24, 2011 meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia’s Economy.

Dmitry Medvedev chaired a joint meeting of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Commission for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on children’s health protection issues.

Dmitry Medvedev chaired a meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia’s Economy held at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. The meeting was dedicated to Innovation Technology in Children’s Healthcare.

Dmitry Medvedev and Gennady Zyuganov discussed the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.

Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on allotment of resources for buying specialised equipment needed to care for premature infants.

Dmitry Medvedev approved a list of instructions issued following a meeting on organisation of summer holidays for children and teenagers of May 3, 2011.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting on children’s health development in the pre-school and school system, focusing, in particular, on organising medical assistance and meals in kindergartens and schools.

Dmitry Medvedev discussed current issues of the region’s development with the governor.

During a visit to Kostroma, Dmitry Medvedev visited the city’s maternity hospital No. 1 and spoke with its staff.

Dmitry Medvedev toured the hospital and talked with the doctors and parents of the children undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to the Russian Federation Law On Psychiatric Assistance and Guarantees of Citizens’ Rights in Providing It, and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Sobyanin discussed ways to address Moscow’s urban planning and transport issues. The Mayor of Moscow also informed the President on the progress of the capital’s healthcare development programme.

Following a meeting of the Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy on January 19, 2010, the Prime Minister, presidential plenipotentiaries to the Federal Districts and heads of Russia’s constituent entities were instructed to ensure that the first stage of measures to implement Russia’s demographic policy through to 2025 was delivered in 2010.

Dmitry Medvedev visited Domodedovo terrorist attack victims at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine.

The subjects of the Thursday meeting were prospects for innovative development of the pharmaceuticals and medical industries, government regulation of medications retail prices, and ways to substitute imported medicines with domestic products.