Healthcare of the Urals in the second half of the 40s – early 50s of the XX century: problems of material and personnel support

This article is discussed the reorganization of the healthcare system after the Great Patriotic war in Urals. The main task of the system was to solve the problem of providing the population with affordable quality medical care. The changing of medical and preventive institutions network, development human resources, the specific formation of hospital bed`s network and the special formation of the hospital fund are reviewed on the base of archival documents and legal sources. It is noted that, unfortunately, a number of problems in the health care system in the postwar years could not be solved: the planned indicators of the bed network were not systematically fulfilled, which had a negative impact on hospitalization of patients and increased the mortality rate; with a general increase in the number of doctors there was a lack of narrow specialists; there was a lack of medical equipment in medical institutions and not in all institutions it was possible to use it in practice. It is noted that the medical service in cities was better than in villages and the large work was done by the government reducing asymmetry in a healthcare system. In spite of technic-material and staff shortage problems there was an intensive development of the region healthcare.