The population of Russia loses 700,000 people a year said President Vladimir Putin in a recent state of the nation address. 56.7 percent of these deaths are due to heart disease, and about 30 percent of those deaths strike men of working age. The mortality rate of these men is five times higher than in Europe.In an already struggling economy, premature death from heart disease and diabetes is predicted to cost the Russian economy $300 billion by 2015, according to World Health Organization figures. According to Professor Leo Bokeria, the director of the Bakulev Center for Heart Surgery in Moscow, 80 percent of deaths could be prevented by an effective health care system.
1. If government of Russia would finance health as now, i think many people will die.
Posted at 9:46AM on May 30th 2006 by Vlad