“It is not a policy, it is narrow-mindedness”. A pulmonologist about the possible ban on imported medical devices

At the beginning of September, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce proposed including more items on the list of medical devices prohibited for import into Russia. If the draft law is approved, public hospitals will be deprived of foreign lung ventilation devices, intraocular pressure tonometers, aurirhynoscopes, functional beds and air sterilisers.