More than 175 billion rubles will be allocated from the budget to finance the Circle of Good Foundation

Financing of the fund for supporting children with serious illnesses “Circle of Good” from the federal budget for 2024-2026. will amount to almost 175 billion rubles, reported Acting coordinator of the national program “Human Health” (“United Russia”), Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection Badma Bashankaev.

“We have separately strengthened the group of expenses for the treatment of children with serious illnesses, the Circle of Good Foundation. More than 175 billion rubles. will be sent in three years. Allocations for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer will also be increased,” the official channel of the United Russia faction in the Duma quotes him as saying.

The deputy also said that additional funds will be allocated under the primary health care modernization program, and work on medical rehabilitation, including for participants in the special operation, will be intensified.

Next year, 2.7 billion rubles will be allocated to combat socially significant diseases, and in 2026 – already 3.4 billion rubles, Bashankaev added.

The Circle of Good Foundation was created by presidential decree in 2021. It can purchase drugs that are not registered in Russia, and can purchase recently registered ones in a simplified manner, without waiting for their introduction into civil circulation. The fund’s budget is formed by contributions to the budget from the increased personal income tax rate for citizens with an income of over 5 million rubles. in year. As follows from the data of the draft budget for 2024-2026, the volume of the grant in the form of a subsidy to the fund in 2024 will be about 55 billion rubles, in 2025 – 59.1 billion rubles, and in 2026 – 60. 3 billion rubles

How wrote Previously Vedomosti, healthcare costs in the draft budget for the next three years are set at 1.6 trillion rubles. annually. This is 7% more than provided for in the current budget.