Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Medicine running out of the RAS – BBC

Russian Academy of Sciences lost four major medical institution. As to why this happens in spite of the existing moratorium on the disposal of property and that the RAS waits for separating institutions understood the science department “Gazety.Ru».

violated the moratorium?

Four leading medical institutions, previously part of the structure of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and became the reform of Academies of Sciences Academy part of a united, go to the Ministry of Health. The institutions in question, it’s Russian Cancer Research Center named after NN Blokhin Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery named after AN Bakuleva, Research Institute of Neurosurgery named after academician NN Burdenko Research Center of Children’s Health. Proper disposal of the Government (№421-p) shall enter into force on 1 July. From 1 January 2016 the Ministry of Health and the Federal Agency of scientific organizations of Russia (Fano) should “take legal acts regulating the issues of interaction between national scientific and practical medical centers with research organizations under the jurisdiction of Fano Russia, providing use in the activities of the results of fundamental research and applied research, including in the field of medicine, biology, chemistry, genetics and physics. ”

After the entry into force in the autumn of 2013 law on the reform of the President of Russia Academy of Sciences has introduced a one-year moratorium on property and personnel decisions in respect of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This moratorium was extended for one year at the December meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education.

«Moratorium on the alienation of property by the Academy. This does not mean that the institutions do not need to merge, to form clusters, some other form of action. Alienation of the property complex of the material from the academy to the side – this is what is at stake “, – Putin said in December.

Thus, the transition from the structure of the institutions in the structure of the Ministry of Health Fano from July 1 – is not nothing but a transition “on the side».

However, oddly enough, a violation of the moratorium in this situation do not. The initiative to go to the structure of the Ministry of Health were the institutions themselves, which in October 2014 by submitting a request to Vladimir Putin. As the President has ordered to approve this request, then, as explained by the correspondent “Gazety.Ru” in the Russian Academy of Sciences, this case is not a violation of the moratorium, as the moratorium introduced by the president and his powers to make an exception.



What is an institution?

«I was among those who advocated this department, but it is not clear the final impact of this issue – said” Gazeta.ru “situation director of the cancer center Mikhail Davydov . – A positive decision has been made, there was an order of the government, from July 1, we pass under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, but what will happen next – I can not say. Will the step of forming the charter, establishing relations with the Ministry of Health and other institutions. ”

«The benefit is that we poured into the health care system, because our most powerful clinical base – and we have fifteen hundred clinically specialized beds – was taken out of the health care system, and we look forward to its more efficient use.

It used to be like as if we were engaged in purely scientific problems, and in fact we have a powerful clinical base – said Mikhail Davydov. – So I hope that we will be more useful in the Ministry of Health. We expect that we will fund a separate line, because of these institutions is planned to establish a national scientific and practical center, which will have a special mode of financing. If it is not, we ordinary structures of the Ministry of Health and no more. ”

However, he believes nonsense attempted to transform the organization into autonomous institutions – item prescribed by the Government, “National centers can not be self-governing institutions. For us, the task is not to create an account in the bank and earn money, but to create scientific technologies in the cluster and deploy them in the regions.

We want to be a budgetary institution, which solves the problem state ».

According to the director of another institution that goes from Fano in the Ministry of Health, – the head of the Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery named after AN Bakuleva Leo Bokeria, next year, the centers will have relative autonomy in the disposal. “Our focus will be entitled to hold a bank account, take out loans and more freely distribute the funds received under the program of state guarantees,” – said Bokeria.



The precedent created

Meanwhile, the situation with the transition of the four leading institutes of the structure in Fano in another agency is a precedent: in fact, this means that any organization may appeal directly to the president and get him permission to bypass the moratorium. This, in particular, the scientists warned the deputy head of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations Aleksei Medvedev.

«In the discussion of issues related to the fate of individual research organizations in the idea, how to develop Russian science, are involved quite a lot of strong and independent actors. And they do not always share the idea that the fundamental science is the cauldron in which key ideas are born, subsequently providing all the amazing application solutions that provide the technological modernization of the country. We have a fairly large number of proposals on the federal universities, is well known to you, – said Alexei Medvedev at a recent conference of scientists in the Russian Academy of Sciences. – We have a proposal from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, from the “Rosatom” and the “Russian Technologies”, which have a utilitarian suggestions on what scientific organization in which the project can be used most effectively.

Actually, in order to prevent what is called a “pull apart” the president gave instructions on maintaining the moratorium for two years.

But they were made to work out a coordinated position within the academic community about what should be structural changes. In a situation where we do not have the concept of the ideological structure of the Russian science, the next step we will lose resources and property “, – concluded the official.

Fano to a request to comment on the passage of four medical schools from July 1, the Ministry of Health “Gazeta.ru” reported that once there is a government order, the agency will implement it. Additional comments followed.

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