Russia (bbabo.net), - The number of hospitalizations in round-the-clock and day hospitals for patients with cardiovascular diseases increased by 18.6%, Elena Chernyakova, chairman of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, said in an interview, answering the question, there are Are there types of medical care that people have begun to seek more often due to the consequences of the coronavirus.

She also noted that the number of hospitalizations for patients with rheumatological diseases increased by 4.3%, urological - by 3.4%, endocrinological - by 2.4%. The number of people requiring medical rehabilitation has increased by more than a third.

Are any types of medical care sagging now due to the coronavirus? According to Elena Chernyakova, in 2020 - early 2021, there was a decrease in the volume of medical care for people with oncological, cardiovascular, endocrine diseases, patients who need dialysis, by 3-5 percent. Now everything has been restored.

“But at the same time, there is a tendency: people themselves postpone elective surgeries if nothing threatens their lives, for example, ophthalmic surgeries. And this situation is typical for many countries,” she said.

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