The key facts

  • Erik Prazdnikov believes that polyclinics are obliged to provide visitors with shoe covers and maintain cleanliness.
  • According to him, machines for automatically putting on shoe covers cost minimal amounts.
  • The doctor noted that such details shape people's impressions of medical institutions.

Proposal to equip polyclinics

Medical institutions in Russia should be equipped with machines for automatically putting on shoe covers. This opinion was expressed to TASS by the Vice President of the Society of Russian Doctors, chairman of the Party of Pensioners, Erik Prazdnikov. According to him, the duties of a medical organization include providing visitors with shoe covers and maintaining cleanliness, while the covers must be durable and of the appropriate size so as not to tear and to perform their function.

Doctor's comment

“There are modern technologies — you walk into the lobby, put your foot on the machine, and it puts the shoe covers on you by itself. The cost of the machine is minimal,” Prazdnikov emphasized. He added that a comfortable environment for patients must be created in medical organizations, and that such details to a certain extent shape people's impressions of polyclinics, hospitals and dispensaries.

Context

Earlier, the Russian government approved the Strategy for the Development of Sports Medicine. The Cabinet specified that the document provides for the development of infrastructure and the equipping of sports medicine centers with modern equipment for diagnosing athletes' health conditions and medical rehabilitation, the training of qualified personnel, the development of scientific research, and the introduction of modern methods of diagnostics, prevention and recovery. It was also previously reported that the use of artificial intelligence in medicine will be expanded in Russia.