At the last meeting of the Government it was reported about the implementation of the program, devoted to development of medicines and special water with medical effect, based on the mineral raw materials of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. It was adopted for 2003-2005 to minimize the costs at its own sources. Over 87 million rubles were spent to develop medicines.

The new remedy of high efficiency “Klimont” was developed which should be applied while diseases of digestive tract. The remedy is an ecologically pure product, based on zeolite which can be found at the Pre-Polar Urals fields. It is approved by a special commission, was undergone to clinical tests and recommended for the use in medical practice.

Besides, the effective ointment “Shunlit” was developed to treat psoriasis. Drinking water, based on local mineral raw materials, was received. The water was also undergone to various clinical tests. Its efficiency is proved.

Governor tasked the coordinator of the program – the Healthcare Department of the Okrug – tp prepare proposals about the schemes of medicines purchase and sale in Ugra.

At the last meeting of the Government it was made a decision to shorten the terms of amortization of non-foods products. Before the employable population was expected to wear coats, raincoats while 7 years, after the changes are incorporated, the term of the clothes wear is 6 years now. The terms of purchasing new furniture, dishes and domestic appliances and devices were changed, for example, term of service of a washing-machine and refrigerator was shortened from 20 to 10 years and of an iron from 9 to 7 years.

In connection of such changes the minimum wage will increase per capita on average by 5 %, for the employable population – by 6,7 %, for pensioners by 3,7 %, for children – by almost 2 %.

In the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug 1679 leaders of enterprises and individual entrepreneurs bore responsibility to increase the salary to their employees.

Over 1200 of them have already increased the salary for their employees. This is the result of ten months’ activity of interdepartmental commissions on labor problems, formed in the municipalities of Ugra. Their goal is to liquidate the indebtedness in payment of the salaries. The commissions work in the towns of Nyagan, Langepas, Beloyarski, Megion, Raduzhny, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nefteyugansk, Nefteyugansk District, Sovetski District, Oktyabrski District. The working groups, responsible for undertaking effective measures to legalize the “shadow salary”, have been formed in all the territorial and tax bodies of Ugra. They formed lists of tax-payers who pay the salary lower than the minimum wage – about a thousand individual entrepreneurs and almost seven hundred legal entities. Letters with the request to give the faithful information in the tax declarations about the salary of employees in their organizations were sent to such entrepreneurs.

So, the compensation for meals will grow from 43,3 rubles to 84 rubles per person per day, and for the purchase of clothes – from 13 794 rubles to 22 000 rubles on average per a first-year full-day student per year.