The federal legislation gives to benefit holders a choice – to use benefits and to gain medicines free of charge, or to refuse it, taking a monetary compensation. The monetary compensation constitutes 766,55 roubles a month.
The CRCH was represented at the congress by Oksana Gennadievna Pyaterkina, chief visiting pediatric pulmonologist of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan, head of the consultative polyclinic No. 1, and Olga Alexandrovna Karpova, Head of the Pulmonology Department of the CRCH.