Lukashenko urges to build efficient healthcare system
03.04.2026
MINSK (
BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko called on officials not to blame a lack of medical staff, but instead to build an efficient system as he visited a ceremony to launch a new outpatient clinic in Minsk, BelTA has learned.
“They say that we don’t have enough people in healthcare. They say that we're short of people in some other sectors. We've always been short of something – first of all money, then people, and so on,” the head of state noted. “We have enough people. We need to figure things out. We need to change the system where, as they say, there is a shortage. We need to build a system in which the people we do have can work, earn a living, and serve the population. This applies more than 200 % to the Healthcare Ministry and our medical workers. Don't whine that you work more than eight hours a day. Medical workers are like the president: we work as much as needed. What can we do? So be patient when you have to work ten hours. Learn new technologies, work more efficiently.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko gave an example that the information system is not yet in place everywhere in healthcare, and that in this regard urged to implement IT more actively.
“Therefore, let us build our lives in such a way that life in Khotimsk, Mstislavl, Shklov, and other cities is as good as it is here in Minsk. If we need to work longer, let's work longer. Let us stop whining and lamenting shortage of specialists. Listen, we are not Ukraine, where a war is going on. Just look at what is happening in the vaunted Poland, where some of our people ran off to, and are now begging in thousands to return to the 'dictatorship': 'We want to go home!'” the head of state said.
“A case in point is Kolya Statkevich. He sat waiting at the border and then came back home. If he hadn’t returned, they would have already buried him. You [doctors] recently saved him after a stroke. You took him to Rummo [head of the Minsk Research and Treatment Center for Surgery, Transplantology, and Hematology] and they worked on him extensively. The center is the only one in the country to have such a system, I believe (we need to look into it and maybe buy a couple more). They saved the man who was hatching plans to destabilize the country and kill the president. But when the frying pan got hot, he ran to that very president, to the 'dictatorship' to be saved. You saved him," the president added.
“They say that we don’t have enough people in healthcare. They say that we're short of people in some other sectors. We've always been short of something – first of all money, then people, and so on,” the head of state noted. “We have enough people. We need to figure things out. We need to change the system where, as they say, there is a shortage. We need to build a system in which the people we do have can work, earn a living, and serve the population. This applies more than 200 % to the Healthcare Ministry and our medical workers. Don't whine that you work more than eight hours a day. Medical workers are like the president: we work as much as needed. What can we do? So be patient when you have to work ten hours. Learn new technologies, work more efficiently.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko gave an example that the information system is not yet in place everywhere in healthcare, and that in this regard urged to implement IT more actively.
“Therefore, let us build our lives in such a way that life in Khotimsk, Mstislavl, Shklov, and other cities is as good as it is here in Minsk. If we need to work longer, let's work longer. Let us stop whining and lamenting shortage of specialists. Listen, we are not Ukraine, where a war is going on. Just look at what is happening in the vaunted Poland, where some of our people ran off to, and are now begging in thousands to return to the 'dictatorship': 'We want to go home!'” the head of state said.
“A case in point is Kolya Statkevich. He sat waiting at the border and then came back home. If he hadn’t returned, they would have already buried him. You [doctors] recently saved him after a stroke. You took him to Rummo [head of the Minsk Research and Treatment Center for Surgery, Transplantology, and Hematology] and they worked on him extensively. The center is the only one in the country to have such a system, I believe (we need to look into it and maybe buy a couple more). They saved the man who was hatching plans to destabilize the country and kill the president. But when the frying pan got hot, he ran to that very president, to the 'dictatorship' to be saved. You saved him," the president added.