Putin Touts Added Cash to Upgrade Health Care

The annual value of the domestic market for medical equipment, where foreign brands dominate, will soar by 50 percent over the next two years amid an injection of government cash, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. The figure will swell from the current 200 billion rubles per year to 300 billion rubles by the end of 2012 as the government begins to spend its revenues from a higher medical […]