Krasnodar, 19 July – Yug Times. The deputies of the regional parliament have reportedly supported the federal initiative of raising the pensionable age and stated that the average life expectancy in the region have grown.
At a session held last week in Krasnodar, the deputies discussed the draft law providing for the raising of the retirement age, submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Pavel Sokoloenko, head of the communist faction in the Legislative Assembly, stated that this bill must be reviewed separately from other initiatives, but this proposal was declined by the majority of votes. Chairman Yuri Burlachko reminded that the document has preliminarily been discussed with a broad circle of public activists, party factions, deputies, human rights and business commissioners, and experts.
Health Care Minister Yevgeni Filippov noted that owing to the development of medical service, all main indices of public health had improved: for instance, total mortality declined by 3.1% and reached 12.5 per 1,000. As regards the average life expectancy which is the main indicator of people’s health, it was 73.3 years last year in the Kuban region, which is higher than the corresponding national and south Russian figures.
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