Ministry of Health (Russian Federation) ^Ministry

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation is a federal executive body responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and legal regulation in the field of health care, compulsory medical insurance, circulation of medicines for medical use, including the organization of prevention of diseases, including infectious diseases and AIDS, medical care, medical rehabilitation and medical expertise (with the exception of medical and social expertise and military medical expertise), pharmaceutical activities, including ensuring the quality, effectiveness and safety of medicines for medical use, circulation of medical devices, sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population ( except for the development and approval of state sanitary and epidemiological rules and hygienic standards), medical and sanitary provision of workers in certain sectors of the economy ki with especially dangerous working conditions, medical and biological assessment of the impact on the human body of especially dangerous factors of physical and chemical nature, resort business, as well as the management of state property and the provision of public services in the health sector, including the provision of medical care, the introduction of modern medical technologies, new methods of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, conducting forensic medical and forensic psychiatric examinations, organizing secondary vocational, higher and additional professional medical and pharmaceutical education and providing services in the field of resort business.