Khotsenko's regional needs Birth-rate and ambulance aid

Oct 5

Khotsenko says birth-rate problems extend beyond the forty-one regions selected using 2023 data. He explains Omsk's initial exclusion and fertility decline to 1.38, seeking federal co-financing for all regions below the 1.6 target. He attributes an estimated annual subsidy rise from 12.5 to twenty-four billion to the Labor Ministry. He seeks an ambulance-replacement programme covering regional capitals, citing seventy-three-percent wear in Omsk and earlier rural-programme limitations, and supports indexing grants that partially compensate public-sector wage increases, asking that indexing be enshrined in law. Matviyenko backs reconsidering ambulance funding for domestic manufacture, driver retention and care. These are proposals and cited estimates.

Khotsenko asks to expand federal co-financing of regional birth-rate programmes beyond forty-one initially selected regions to all with fertility below the 1.6 target. He describes Omsk's earlier exclusion and decline to 1.38 and cites a Labor Ministry estimate of subsidies rising from 12.5 to twenty-four billion annually. This is an October 5 funding and eligibility request, not an adopted expansion.