The government will expand the social insurance of workers of public health. Those providing for the treatment of patients with coronavirus will be able to get compensation when infected at work. Payments are provided and the families of those who die due to complications from this infection.The President signed a decree granting additional insurance guarantees a number of health care workers. We are talking about the introduction for health workers who now provide patients with coronavirus, i.e. doctors, nurses and other medical staff and ambulance drivers, insurance guarantees, similar to existing for the military.Now employed in the health sector, like other categories of workers in Russia, the insured under obligatory social insurance from accidents on manufacture and occupational diseases, meaning they can qualify for a monthly allowance from the social insurance Fund (SIF) — on the part of the salary. Now, in addition to these payments, the victims in the course of work with patients with coronavirus in medical institutions can apply for one-off payments at fixed rates: payment to employees of social insurance Fund. As earlier wrote “Kommersant”, the Fund must obtain the financing on the new payout is 3.2 billion rubles from the reserve Fund of the government (see “Kommersant” on April 16).Now the list of deaths from the coronavirus in the Russian Federation, which leads itself the medical community on the website Covid-memory, 107 medical staff — both doctors and nurses employed in the ambulance. Based on these data, the number of infected could reach at least 2 thousand.Anastasia Manuylova
