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The right of Soviet citizens to health care is laid down in the Constitution of the USSR. All forms of medical care are free and available to the entire population. More than five per cent of the state budgetary allocations are for medicine.
The USSR has more than 23,000 hospitals with 3.3 million beds, and more than a million doctors. The Soviet Union is considerably ahead of the developed capitalist countries in the number of beds in hospitals and clinics (125) and doctors (37) per 100,000 population.
Health care is aimed mainly at disease prevention. About 108 million people have check-ups every year in the drive to prevent diseases and nip them in the bud. The state health system, which was set up after the revolution. has ensured that Soviet citizens enjoy considerably better health. The death rate is now three times less than it was before the revolution and the average life expectancy has more than doubled, now being 70 years. - from the Soviet press, 1984
At the pediatrician’s surgery Nanai District (Soviet Far East)
The winter gardens of a trade union sanatorium, Irkutsk Region (Eastern Siberia)
The USSR Cardiological Centre in Moscow. Radio-isotopic examination of the patient’s heart.
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