In an official letter that was sent to the chief physicians of medical organizations by the director of the health department of the Bryansk region, Andrei Bardukov, doctors of the Bryansk region are prohibited from using a number of foreign communication services and instant messengers. In particular, doctors were forbidden to work with Google's map service, as well as with Gmail, Yahoo, WhatsApp, Viber, ICQ messengers, Izvestia
writes . At the same time left the opportunity to work with the resources of "Yandex" and Mail.Ru Group.
“Consider the use of corporate services of the health department. If there is no technical possibility to use services whose hardware is located on the territory of the Russian Federation, for example, Mail.ru or Yandex.ru, Exclude the use of Google Chrome and Safari browsers, ”Bardukov writes in a letter. The fact of sending such a letter was confirmed by the executor of this order, the director of the Medical Information and Analytical Center Elena Kren.
She also said that doctors can use Internet Explorer and Yandex Browser at work. But you can not use Skype. According to Elena Kren, medical institutions have medical information that should not be included in the social network.
The Ministry of Health has already supported the proposal of Bardukov, stating that "it allows you not to be distracted from current affairs and concentrate on work during working hours." However, the Ministry of Health of Russia is not the author of this idea. As for Andrei Bardukov, he justifies a ban on the use of a number of products by doctors by the fact that there is a certain “Plan for the transition of the executive authorities of the state and local governments of the Bryansk region to the use of products and services of domestic Internet companies”
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This initiative was not supported by the first deputy chairman of the committee of the Federation Council on economic policy, the senator from the Bryansk region, Sergei Kalashnikov. He stated that any attempts to restrict the Internet are doomed to failure. “This is a meaningless exercise that undermines the very idea of ​​an absolutely free global network of communications. One can speak about the national Internet only in terms of a certain restriction of Internet users for the purpose of state security, and no more. I would not call such a document productive, since some Western platforms, such as Google's maps, are more informative and more convenient in a number of ways than their Russian counterparts, ”says Sergey Kalashnikov.