Russia’s Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev, announced a halt to a proposed ban on state-funding of imported medical goods.
Medvedev told Russian journalists a suggested bill to restrict imported medical devices and supplies would not be supported by his government unless treatment quality for patients could be maintained.
“I have stopped the document [bill] so far,” he said. The prime minister added, “we must be 100 percent sure that if we close the supply of something, we produce similar products that are not worse.”
Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry in August had urged the ban on some 100 imported medical devices and supplies as …read more
Source: Voice of America
