The Creation of a Unified National Health System

In many ways, the year 2019 was supposed to be a watershed for Russia’s healthcare system. This was the final year of the ambitious six-year program set forth in the May 2012 Executive Orders of the President, to be followed by even more substantial transformations under the new national project ‘Healthcare’. Meanwhile, the burgeoning unified national health system was continually evolving, its goal being to provide the entire nation with guaranteed equal rights to medical care