The Commission on Migration Policy has prepared a bill aimed at improving the procedures for medical examinations of foreign citizens. Currently, the draft is undergoing interdepartmental coordination, after which it will be submitted to the State Duma as an inter-factional legislative initiative.
In particular, it is planned to:
· expand the list of diseases for which incoming foreign citizens are tested—proposing to include hepatitis C;
· reduce the period from 90 to 30 days during which migrants must undergo a medical examination after arriving in the country;
· establish stricter liability for providing medical documents not confirmed by an actual medical examination or containing falsified data;
· include medical institutions authorized to conduct examinations in a unified registry (the list will be determined by the regions and approved by the Russian Ministry of Health).
Additionally, it is proposed to introduce exclusively electronic document flow between medical institutions and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the transfer of information about the health status of foreign citizens. This format of interaction is expected to enable decisions to be made in the shortest possible time to prevent the spread of certain diseases. This includes the possibility of deporting individuals suffering from dangerous infectious diseases who have submitted false documents.
We remind you that, in accordance with current legislation, foreign citizens arriving in the Russian Federation for the purpose of "work," as well as foreigners arriving in the Russian Federation for non-labor activities for a period exceeding 90 calendar days, are required to undergo a medical examination to confirm the absence or presence of:
· the fact of using narcotics or psychotropic substances without a doctor's prescription or new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances;
· infectious diseases posing a danger to others, as specified in a special list (syphilis, tuberculosis, etc.), and HIV infection.
We also remind you that earlier the Russian Ministry of Health proposed introducing an article into the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, providing for administrative fines for doctors and medical institutions that violate the established procedures for medical examinations of foreign citizens or stateless persons. For more details, see our news.
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