Anastasia Rakova, the former chief of staff of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, will now oversee the social direction in the renewed Moscow government. Previously, this post was occupied by Leonid Pechatnikov - his name does not appear in the current composition of the government.
Sobyanin, whose inauguration took place the day before, on September 18, announced this in his blog. The decree on personnel changes also appeared on the website of the mayor's office. “He [Pechatnikov] is a practical, wonderful doctor, and bureaucratic work was not entirely to his liking, as he told me more than once. I am very grateful to him that he agreed, although with great difficulty and reluctance, but nevertheless agreed to work for some time in the government of Moscow. Over the years, he has done a lot for the health care of the city. The most difficult and sometimes very painful, but necessary changes have passed. As a result, the industry has become more economically stable and better motivated for customers,” the capital’s mayor wrote, adding that Pechatnikov’s resignation was also connected with his transfer to another job. At the same time, Sobyanin hopes that Pechatnikov will remain "at least" his adviser.
Anastasia Rakova has been the head of the Moscow Mayor's Office since 2010. Prior to that, she worked in the Tyumen region together with Sergei Sobyanin, and also held the posts of Deputy Secretariat of the Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia and Deputy Minister of Regional Development.
Leonid Pechatnikov is a graduate of the First Medical Institute. THEM. Sechenov, he graduated from the university in 1979. Then in 1981 he completed his residency training in the specialty "internal medicine". Until 1994, he worked as the chief therapist of the Central Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR, and from 1994 to 2001 he served as the chief therapist of the medical diagnostic association of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, from where he moved to KGB No. 67 of Moscow as the chief therapist. In 2004, he became President of the European Medical Center (EMC).
In 2010, Pechatnikov headed the Moscow Department of Health, and two years later he moved to the social block of the Moscow government. In this position, he repeatedly found himself embroiled in various scandals - from the purchase of medical equipment and drugs to questions about the education of the vice-mayor himself. The name of Pechatnikov is associated with the optimization of the Moscow healthcare system, which began in 2014 and was associated with large-scale reductions in the capital's doctors and the merger of medical institutions. Pechatnikov himself said that the optimization "ended up with good results," and to the then head of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Sergei Kalashnikov, who called the reform "genocide," as follows: "It makes no sense to comment on Kalashnikov's statements. I found the answer to the deputy from Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya: “I blurted out like a p **** l in a puddle.”
In late 2016 - early 2017, Leonid Pechatnikov took an active part in a high-profile conflict between the then chief physician of the Moscow City Oncological Hospital No. 62 (MGOB No. 62) Anatoly Makhson and the DZM. The department issued order No. 963 dated December 1, 2016, changing the status of MGB No. 62 from autonomous to state-financed organization. Then, by order of December 5, Anatoly Makhson was dismissed from the post of chief physician of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 62.
Makhson statements to the FSB and investigative committee with a request to check the purchases of the Moscow Health Department and bring officials to criminal responsibility if violations are detected. The statement cited examples of the department's purchases of five cancer drugs and two units of medical equipment, the prices of which were overpriced by 217.8 million rubles. Leonid Pechatnikov refuted Makhson's arguments, tried to convict the hospital of illegal business and, in the end, announced that inspections of the purchasing activities of the DZM did not reveal any violations.
In 2017, representatives of the "Dissernet" Vademecum community that they could not find the doctoral dissertation of the vice-mayor in the available sources. Representatives of the Central Scientific Medical Library at the First Medical Center and the All-Russian Attestation Commission (VAK) also failed to find it. The Department of Certification of Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Workers of the Ministry of Education and Science responded to a request from Vademecum that “there is no information on the awarding of the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences to Pechatnikov Leonid Mikhailovich ... in the registration database of the department.” In response, Leonid Pechatnikov said that he defended his doctoral dissertation in France, but his doctoral dissertation can also be found in the databases of the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education in France, whose archives contain information about all scientific works that have been defended in the republic.
The authoritative Nezygar Telegram channel, which is suspected to be connected to the presidential administration, reported that Leonid Pechatnikov, a former deputy prime minister of the Moscow government who oversaw the social bloc, has come under investigation. According to the channel, he is charged with embezzlement in the amount of 3.5 billion rubles. In addition, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, is already aware of the conflict that has arisen.
Actually, if the information is true, Pechatnikov became the second vice-mayor of the capital, risking joining Ulyukaev, Belykh and other "illustrious prisoners." But if Luzhkov's deputy Ryabinin did not work in the government for long and was quickly caught on a bribe, not having time to become completely his own for the capital's elite, then Leonid Pechatnikov is a figure of a completely different scale.
In the first government of Sergei Sobyanin, he came to the post of head of the health department from the post of director of the European Medical Center. That is why he was known as a specialist in advanced, in terms of the present time, medicine, that is, moving to self-sufficiency at the expense of the patient. Actually, it is precisely with the name of Pechatnikov that the very controversial reform to optimize the capital's health care, built on a reduction in the number of doctors and the merger (enlargement) of medical institutions, is associated. This reform met with sharp condemnation of both patients and doctors themselves. A prominent State Duma deputy, former social minister Kalashnikov compared it to genocide.
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Meanwhile, the activities of the "optimizer" were marked by the promotion to the rank of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs. And I must say, for a very long time Leonid Mikhailovich was, as they like to say, absolutely Teflon, that is, the waves of scandals that arose around his name did not cause any harm to his career.
It began with the fact that his chosen successor as Minister of Health of Moscow urgently emigrated to Switzerland, feeling that he smelled fried. In a distant country, he had a solid alternate airfield in store. But Pechatnikov behaved as if nothing had happened. However, the next minister Khripun did not show himself in any way. Doctors even began to recall with longing the times of Luzhkov's minister, the famous surgeon Seltsovsky.
Somehow, inopportunely, it turned out that, while introducing himself everywhere as a doctor of medical sciences, Pechatnikov could not document his high scientific achievements. In the end, the cornered doctor of sciences said that he had defended his dissertation in France, but there was no formal confirmation there either.
Meanwhile, signals were multiplying that far from everything was in order in the sphere of metropolitan medicine. The climax was a public showdown between the vice-mayor and the well-known oncologist Anatoly Makhson, who accused the leadership of the capital's health care of inflating the cost of purchasing drugs. Even the figure of overpayments was called almost 200 million rubles. In response, Pechatnikov tried to accuse his opponent of economic abuses. In general, the noise was great. But at the center of the disassembly of medical men was the same “optimization”, which seemed especially egregious in the field of oncology.
Pechatnikov was also known for his unexpected support of the liberal Leonid Gozman, who compared the NKVD and the Gestapo. And when the KP journalist recalled that the Nazis made lampshades from the skin of Gozman's ancestors, Pechatnikov said that he would no longer have business with Komsomolskaya Pravda. However, he quickly changed his mind.
It must be said that when sending Pechatnikov into retirement after his regular elections, Mayor Sobyanin made a heartfelt speech about the merits of Leonid Mikhailovich and his irresistible desire to return to practical medicine. All propriety was observed. Although everyone understood that the emerging information about the strange suppliers of the largest metropolitan hospitals with registration in Cyprus and other offshore companies did not remain without some consequences. After all, among their official founders came across, for example, people from the same European Medical Center, which for a long time was headed by Pechatnikov.
Now, according to Nezygar, they could unwind the entire chain along which government billions went offshore. We are waiting for details.
The reputation of Moscow Vice Mayor for Social Affairs Leonid Pechatnikov has long been questioned by the public. The other day, he again reminded of himself with another controversial initiative.
According to the official, Russia should follow the example of a number of Asian countries. In them, patients with oncology at the last stage are treated at their own expense, even if they are under the state insurance program.
It is unlikely that Pechatnikov voiced his point of view - the installation of paid healthcare in the Russian Federation has long and consistently been put into practice. However, it was he who said that the late stage of cancer is the problem of the patient himself and he must pay for the treatment. Well, if there is no money, then there is no need to disturb the domestic health care.
Pechatnikov advised citizens to regularly undergo medical examinations to detect oncology in the early stages.
Here in Korea, there, if a person has not passed the check-up and he has advanced cancer, then he will have to pay for his treatment himself. It seems to me that the path chosen by the Asian countries, including Japan and Korea, seems to me to be reasonable, - said the deputy mayor of Moscow.
He, however, forgot to mention the salaries of the Japanese and Koreans and their quality of life. Russian Federation unlike Asia, it is a third world country with a poor and sick population.
In general, Leonid Pechatnikov, according to all polls, is extremely unpopular among the capital's officials. It was he who led the process of “optimization” of Moscow healthcare, after which thousands of doctors found themselves on the street, and a number of medical institutions were closed and abolished.
One of Pechatnikov's most notorious scandals is his mania for getting around the city in ambulances. So he avoids traffic jams: somehow the traffic police caught him on Kutuzovsky Prospekt driving with a special signal, as reported by many publications.
Like any self-respecting official, Pechatnikov has a Ph.D. True, so far no one has been able to find his dissertation. Even the well-known medical publication Vademecum could not do it - traces scientific work not yet discovered.
It has also been repeatedly reported that the Deputy Mayor previously received the position of head of the Moscow Health Department with the support of the shareholder of the European Medical Center (GEMC) group Leonid Shaiman. Instead, he was given the city hospital No. 63 without competitions, in violation of the law.
One can recall the articles by blogger Stalik Khankishiyev, where he talked about the dismissal of Anatoly Makhson, the head physician of hospital No. 62, by the authorities of the capital. He was extremely dissatisfied with the centralized purchases of drugs for cancer patients at inflated prices. Moreover, many patients did not receive the medicines. For disclosing this information, Makhson was fired from his post.
Also in the "merits" of Pechatnikov is a two-fold reduction in the time spent in hospitals.
It is the deputy mayor for social affairs who is called the official who paid 10 million dollars to the Humpty Dumpty hackers for not making his Internet correspondence public.
Why was the plan to cut hospitals backdated, why didn't it appear in the public space earlier?
If it was a document, then it would probably have surfaced on time. But since this is only one of the proposals of the expert group, it was simply stolen from the computer of the health department.
- Nevertheless, why was there no open discussion about the need to reduce city clinics?
What is the discussion about?
The fact that we are switching to single-channel financing, that the city budget will not finance the hospital, and all expenses will be borne by the Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund.
What kind of discussion should be held when the laws were passed in 2010 that declared this?
- You yourself said that Moscow violated this law(“Moscow did not enter into insurance medicine for a long time. We simply did not comply with federal legislation, we had the opportunity to finance from the budget,” Leonid Pechatnikov told RBC). If Moscow broke the law, would it be logical to explain why the law was broken and why it can no longer be done?
I don't see any reason to hold public hearings on whether the law should be broken further. Agree, the subject of discussion sounds rather silly: we received an act of the Accounts Chamber, which indicated to us that we are violating the law, financing from the budget what we should finance under compulsory medical insurance. Until January 1, 2015, this could still be afforded, but after that the law becomes an integral part of any legislation. All medical services, except for psychiatry, tuberculosis and infectious diseases, are “lowered” into the CHI [the state program of the city of Moscow "Capital Health Care" for 2012-2020 provides for the amount of budget funds for 2014 - 291.3 billion rubles, in 2015 - 303.4 billion rubles, in 2016 - 311.4 billion rubles. In 2015, expenses will be spent, among other things, on the provision of outpatient care (RUB 96.6 billion), including neuropsychiatric and narcological dispensaries financed from these funds. Moscow will also allocate 2.5 billion next year for the provision of high-tech types of medical care not included in the CHI program].
Why did you still break the law?
We needed to prepare a base for optimization, it's not easy to transfer the system from the budget to the CHI.
Many doctors believe that it would be worth building new clinics first, and then optimizing what is already there.
Everything we can, we build. We are building the Morozov hospital, a perinatal center in the 67th hospital, we are doing overhaul buildings on the territory of the Botkin hospital. Moscow, like all cities in the world, will focus on multidisciplinary hospitals.
What doctors tell us: such things are good, for example, in Spain, where there are no traffic jams. And in Moscow, where the road to the hospital can take several hours, someone is sure to die from bleeding in the ambulance.
I will give another example from life. Here is a gynecological hospital, a woman is taken for an operation. Anesthesia, opening of the abdominal cavity, instead of gynecology appendicitis. This hospital doesn't even have a license for general surgery. The woman lies under anesthesia, and a surgeon from a nearby hospital is coming to her to perform an operation. And this is a case from life: an ophthalmological hospital, a person comes in for a cataract operation. He has a heart attack ambulance through traffic jams along Tverskaya rushes after this patient in order to hospitalize him where there is a cardiologist. Monoprofile hospitals do not survive, they are dangerous for patients.
- And when can we expect a specific plan of action?
I think for the New Year.
Leonid Mikhailovich Pechatnikov
Born in 1956.
In 1979 he graduated from the 1st Moscow Medical Institute.
Most of his career, Pechatnikov worked as a practicing physician, but he was also a professor at the Department of Fundamentals of Pathology and Mathematical Modeling in Medicine at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (from April to June 2001).
Since December 14, 2010 - Minister of the Government of Moscow and Head of the Department of Health.
Since May 25, 2012 - Vice Mayor for social development Moscow. According to him, he did not want to become an official, and Sergei Sobyanin twice offered him a position in the government.
Business and the state
- You have many times called on businessmen to cooperate with state medicine and treat patients free of charge, under the so-called green card of compulsory medical insurance. Let's take one example: there is a group of companies "MEDSI" , she signed an agreement with the Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, invested money in the re-profiling of a hospital in Otradnoye. As a result, MEDSI was not included in the list of medical institutions that were recommended by the Ministry of Health, they are not given patients under compulsory medical insurance. It turns out that the city still actively supports only its own institutions, the private sector has no opportunity to compete with them.
If you, in addition to MEDSI, EMC (European Medical Center) and OJSC Medicina, can name me at least one private clinic that deals with hospital medicine, I will be very grateful. As for private polyclinics, they are very willing to participate in CHI.
- As far as I know, neither "MEDSI" nor OJSC "Medicina" entered the CHI system this year.
The problem is that if [private clinics] are included in the system of compulsory medical insurance, then all tariffs must be included: anyone can be brought to them by ambulance, and not just those patients who need a well-paid (by some tariffs) CHI health care. I had a similar situation with the CCB [Central Clinical Hospital], in which they told me: “Do not bring homeless people from the Kursk railway station to us. We have a contingent." And private hospitals want to treat only at high rates.
- Do I understand correctly that while the basic tariffs are so low, we will not see private traders in the CHI system?
Don't know.
- How are the payment rates for doctors working in the CHI system calculated now? Are they greatly underestimated?
In order to live with these tariffs, you need to carry out the very optimization that we undertook. Are you asking me if the rates are sufficient? I answer you: no, they are not enough. But each state can afford exactly as much as it can.
- How then should the hospital survive?
Due to the intensification of work.
- What does it mean?
For example, if it is possible to operate using the laparoscopic method, then it is necessary to operate in this way, and not otherwise. If the surgeon does not master this method, he must either learn or look for another job.
- Will you give subsidies from the city budget to compulsory insurance funds?
If we are able to optimize the system correctly today, we will be able to see how much we need. Before today we have always subsidized health care, provided direct subsidies.
How do you feel about the fact that the threshold for contributions to the OFMS is removed? The employer will now pay to the MHIF from all salaries [In September, the government approved a bill to remove the MHIF contribution threshold. The formula for deductions to the MHI fund is as follows: the employer pays 5.1% of the salary of a subordinate, not exceeding 624 thousand rubles. in year. Salaries above this amount are subject to the same deduction - as if the employee receives 624 thousand. According to the calculations of the Ministry of Finance, the abolition of the restriction will increase the budget of the MHI fund by 200 billion rubles.].
I will answer this question with a real case. We once sat with Veronika Skvortsova [Minister of Health], I lit a cigarette. She says: “Are you still smoking”? I answer her: "Since you were at the president's and asked that all tobacco excises go to the health budget, I smoke exactly twice as much."
"May Decrees"
By 2018, according to Vladimir Putin's "May decrees", the salary of doctors will need to be increased to 200% of the average salary in the region. How will you do it?
This is a difficult task. But if these decrees had not existed, it is possible that we would have suffered with Soviet system health care for quite some time.
- And all the same, due to what you are going to increase the salaries of doctors?
By 2018, we need the average salary of doctors to be about 140,000 rubles. If the system works effectively, we will solve this problem.
- How?
Through what we do. By intensifying work, by increasing labor productivity. The whole problem of the USSR and today's Russia lies in only one thing: in our country, the growth of wages is significantly ahead of the growth of labor productivity. If we do not increase labor productivity, we will not only fail to comply with Putin's decrees, we will fall apart altogether.
- That is, when we increase labor productivity, we can’t get away from the layoffs of doctors?
In all sectors, everything is arranged in the same way: both in healthcare and in industry. Today, we have equipped the Moscow healthcare system in a way that it has never been equipped before. If earlier it was necessary to hospitalize a person to diagnose a disease, today it is absolutely not necessary to do this. Today, polyclinics are equipped no worse than hospitals. If this is so, another source dries up, beds are freed. It makes no sense to keep empty beds and staff to them. Therefore, there is a shortage of doctors in polyclinics, the entire surplus concerns hospitals. Jobs are provided for everyone, another thing is that we cannot guarantee them workplace by specialty. We cannot provide for all urologists. Does that mean unemployment? But we give them the opportunity to retrain at our expense.
Conflict of interest
About equipment medical equipment: as far as I understand, you were twice reproached for a conflict of interest. The first time - when tomographs were bought at your suggestion Toshibafor city hospitals from your EMC partners. Did you go for it on purpose?
Yes. In the first case, I understood what they would reproach me for. But in 2010, when I came to the department, by that time I had never bought anything from equipment, I knew nothing.
- Have you bought anything at the EMC?
I was president and chief physician, but I never did business. When I came to the Department of Health and saw the recommended prices, including for tomographs, I realized that it was about three times more expensive than what was bought at the EMC. In general, I decided that this was a mistake. I went to the EMC and said: “Listen, if you bought for yourself for 30, and they recommend me for 90, maybe you can buy for the city for 30”? But, realizing that I would be reproached for a conflict of interest, I told Sergei Sobyanin about this. [with the advent of Pechatnikov, the Department of Healthcare has new suppliers - CJSC Farmadis, LLC Inoprom-med and LLC GL En-Invest. After examining the history of these firms on SPARK, Vedomosti discovered that they are associated with Pechatnikov's former partners - co-owners of the EMC (CJSC Europian Medical Center)Igor Shilov, Leonid Shaimanand Lajos Balier Csaba, as well asVladimir Smagin,business partner of a former EMC supplier].
- That is, Sobyanin knew about this?
My former partners have won all the competitions. They agreed on purchases with Toshiba, came out with record low prices. We bought 64-slice computers for 21 million, I think they bought 80-slice computers for 28 million. I warned the mayor, Igor Artemiev [head of the FAS], about this. I spoke about this with the presidential control department. I told them: "If you don't get allergic to the participation of the EMC, then they are ready to participate." They said they didn't care who would sell us computers and MRIs. There is only one task: to bring down this extremely criminalized market.
When in 2013 the building of the 63rd hospital was transferred for 49 years in concession to the same EMC, some, let's say, members of the medical community said that no one entered this tender, because everyone understands: the EMC is Pechatnikov's clinic, She will have preferences.
I can only say that when the EMC came to me with this idea, I said that if they have extra money, I can't stop them. From a business point of view, I considered this idea a losing one for them: they paid a billion for the right to concession, while undertaking to build a new hospital complex for $12.5 million. To build something that will not even belong to you, you can’t even be credited for it. It seemed to me that this idea was difficult from a business point of view, but I am not that much a businessman. If they felt that it would be beneficial for them, I wish them success.
Will it not turn out that after some time they will build a hospital that still will not accept patients under compulsory medical insurance?
They will be. The question is different: will these volumes of mandatory medical insurance give them?
- Then the agreement will be violated ...
The agreement states that if the city gives them these volumes, they are required to accept at least 40% of the CHI.
- And if the city does not provide these volumes ...
So, they will do everything for a fee.
- Then it's a good deal.
About terrible
- Why did you decide to become an official?
I did not decide to become an official, there were no such plans. I refused twice. Ultimately, I had to agree.
- Are you happy with how things turned out?
Today I would rather treat people. I still do this: I consult patients in Moscow hospitals, such a vacation for me. In addition, once every two months I conduct anatomical analyzes in city clinics, trying not to lose my qualifications.
Will you go to talk to people at the rally “Let's stop the collapse of Moscow medicine”, which is scheduled for November 2 on Suvorovskaya Square?
- Why?
I know these people, we talked to them, I understand them very well: they worked in the same system, and today they are told that this will not happen again. I am extremely sorry for people who are already aged, it is very difficult for them to relearn, I understand them. But the task is to save the system. It's emotionally heavy stuff, but it's moving forward. And if you think that I am pleased when they call me a “health demon”, then you are mistaken. Now I often quote my friend Gennady Khazanov, who called me and said: “Lenya, it’s not scary when you are mixed with shit. It's scary when they confuse you with him.
Which hospitals are being liquidated
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21.09.2018 | 18:18
On September 19, Sergei Sobyanin, re-elected as the capital's mayor, announced the composition of the new capital's government. Leonid Pechatnikov, one of the most unpopular Moscow officials, was dismissed.
Anastasia Rakova, the former head of the mayor's office, has been appointed to replace Pechatnikov. She is called the official of the Moscow government closest to Sobyanin. Rakova has been friends with the mayor since the days of his chairmanship in the KhMAO parliament.
According to RBC's interlocutor in the mayor's office, Pechatnikov allegedly asked for his resignation for the past two years. A different opinion is broadcast by Vedomosti. The newspaper links Pechatnikov's resignation and his conflict with Rakova. Political scientist Alexander Pozhalov says that Pechatnikov's resignation is politically explicable and recalls that this official was a symbol of "hard optimization of grassroots medicine", a process that was very painful for state employees. As a public figure, Pechatnikov constantly caused outbursts of discontent with his statements, so in the election year his presence in the public field was reduced to a minimum.
The Infox portal notes that "most of the reforms carried out by Pechatnikov were categorically not accepted by the population." His innovations in the field of education consisted in the transfer of schools to a purely economic footing, and schools began to compete with each other in the struggle for students and funding. And in the field of medicine, Pechatnikov, according to the authors of the publication, created “the conditions for numerous abuses in public procurement,” which led to a particularly deplorable situation in oncology.
In the Moscow city committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the reshuffle in the Moscow mayor's office was described as an exchange of "sew for soap", and the "formal dismissal of Leonid Pechatnikov from office" is considered "resignation only with a huge stretch." We are talking about the intention of Sergei Sobyanin to leave Pechatnikov "at least as an adviser." “Muscovites see from their own bitter experience how the “optimization” of the capital’s health care has led to a sharp reduction in free medical institutions, the number medical staff, medical specialists, to an increase in the commercialization of this industry. And after that, some people turn their tongues to say that “a lot has been done” for medicine! ”, The material published on the website of the Communist Party says.
Leonid Pechatnikov became head of the Moscow Department of Health in 2010, and two years later he moved to the social block of the Moscow government. Unofficial sources reported that the infamous doctor-businessman, shareholder of the European Medical Center (GEMC) group Leonid Shaiman contributes to the promotion of Pechatnikov. The official himself subsequently provided Sheiman with serious patronage.
Pechatnikov has repeatedly become a defendant in various scandals. His name is associated with large-scale reductions in the capital's doctors and the unification of medical institutions, which started in 2014. The then head of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Sergei Kalashnikov, called the printing reform "genocide."
In 2016-2017, Leonid Pechatnikov took an active part in the public conflict between Anatoly Makhson, the chief physician of the Moscow City Oncological Hospital No. 62 (MGOB No. 62), and the DZM. The department issued an order changing the status of the hospital from an autonomous to a budgetary institution, and Makhson sent applications to the FSB and the Investigative Committee with a request to check the purchases of the Moscow Health Department and bring officials to criminal responsibility. The statement cited examples of the department's purchases of five cancer drugs and medical equipment, the prices of which were inflated by 217.8 million rubles. Leonid Pechatnikov, in response, tried to convict the hospital of illegal business. Later, blogger Stalik Khankishiev joined the scandal, dedicating several long posts to the vice-mayor's personality, which cited opinions about large-scale corruption.
Pechatnikov caused a lot of dissatisfaction among Muscovites with his order to reduce the time spent in hospitals in hospitals by half. In 2015-2016, Pechatnikov intervened in a public initiative to rename the Voykovskaya metro station. He, according to many opinions, contributed to the delay, and then the failure of this undertaking.
In 2017, representatives of the Dissernet community told the medical publication Vademecum that the vice mayor's doctoral dissertation was not found in available sources. Representatives of the Central Scientific Medical Library at the First Medical Center and the All-Russian Attestation Commission (VAK) could not find it either. Leonid Pechatnikov said that he defended his doctoral dissertation in France, but it was not found there either.
Life reported last year that a Moscow official paid $10 million to Shaltai-Boltai hackers to "not publish" his business correspondence, and several experts suggested that it was Pechatnikov.
The personal qualities of the already former Moscow official were also the subject of unflattering publications in the press. In particular, they wrote a lot about the fact that Pechatnikov uses ambulances to bypass traffic jams. There were reports that he was caught misusing cars with a special signal during a traffic police raid on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
Pechatnikov's last scandalous statement was made on March 21 this year. The official said that cancer in the last stages in some Asian countries is treated at the expense of the patient, even if there is a state insurance program, and Russia should learn from this experience. This proposal of the vice-mayor caused a storm of criticism and indignation.
Pechatnikov's resignation, unexpected for the majority, caused, as it was possible to learn, panic moods in a number of state and private structures controlled and subordinated to him. First of all, we are talking about officials and businessmen in the medical field.
Today, a number of sources disseminated information that, in addition to Pechatnikov, another critically unpopular Moscow official, Isaac Kalina, head of the Moscow Department of Education, was fired. However, this information has not yet been confirmed.
