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The Moscow News. Patient rights activists worry that paid ambulances set to appear in Moscow will supersede the free ones

Patient rights activists worry that paid ambulances set to appear in Moscow will supersede the free ones.

Earlier mass media reported that paid ambulance services could appear in Moscow from February 1.

Deputy Moscow Mayor on social issues Leonid Pechatnikov said the commercial ambulances may arrive faster than the free ones, their vehicles will be more comfortable and the doctors will be able to provide services that are now not included in the obligatory list.

However, the president of the All-Russia public organization League of patients’ protection, Alexander Saversky, said paid ambulances are a direct violation of the Constitution that says that all nationals have the right to free medical care in all state medical institutions.

“It is not only about the ambulances, but general legal rules. State municipal organization will provide paid for medical services based on what? We want to ask the Health Ministry and Prosecutor’s Office that. At the moment, according to Article 41 of the Constitution, the state provides free medical care in all municipal organizations,” he told RIA Novosti.

He said the appropriate letters will be sent to the Health Ministry and Prosecutor’s Office within two weeks.

Saversky said that the trend could finally supersede the free ambulances.

“It is inevitable once you start. Officials, who are paid from our taxes, spend time on creating paid ambulances that contradict the Constitution,” he added.

“Just you see what Pechatnikov is saying: they will drive faster, serve better, they will have additional equipment. And are we worse?”

However, the Heath Ministry insists that they will not allow only paid for ambulances.

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