The funding will be disbursed among budgets of territorial mandatory medical insurance funds, according to the Russian Government’s press service.

Yakutia will receive most allocations totaling 223,843,200 rubles. The breakdown for other territories is as follows: Buryatia: 17,776,200 rubles, the Trans-Baikal Territory: 55,290,000 rubles, Kamchatka: 24,702,700 rubles, the Primorye Territory: 19,235,300 rubles, the Khabarovsk Territory: 50,992,900 rubles, Amur Region:  47,239,400 rubles and Magadan: 428,100 rubles.

Sakhalin, the Jewish Autonomous Region and Chukotka will receive 5,213,300, 14,053,900 and 2,504,800 rubles for these purposes.

The decision was made in accordance with projected annual medical personnel increment volumes. According to this forecast, medical institutions will hire over 6,000 doctors and over 8,000 mid-level medical personnel next year.